From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Nov 2 11:18:19 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:18:19 +0000 Subject: {news} Write-In Candidates Challenge Five Stamford Incumbents In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: PRESS RELEASE October 29, 2008 Contact: David Bedell, (203)977-8106, dbedell@ greens.org Richard Duffee, (203)286-9697, richard.duffee@ gmail.com German Tedesco, (203)537-8204, german@ allamericanlimoservice.com Brent Yarnell, (203)921-8299, byarnell@ brunswickschool.org WRITE-IN CANDIDATES CHALLENGE FIVE STAMFORD INCUMBENTS Green Party Fills Vacuum Left by Republican Withdrawals STAMFORD, CT -- Most of Stamford's Democratic delegation to the state legislature is up for re-election next Tuesday, but they will find themselves alone on the ballot. The Republican Party is not fielding candidates this year in the 27th State Senate race or in four out of six State Assembly races. However, local members of the Green Party have filed write-in candidacies for these seats, offering voters an alternative to the incumbents. Officially recognized by the Secretary of the State's office, registered write-in candidates' names are posted in the polling places where they are running, and votes for these candidates are tabulated and reported in official election results. Richard Duffee, 60, is running as a write-in candidate in Assembly District 144 against Jim Shapiro. He is also the Green Party candidate for Congress in the 4th District. Mr. Duffee reflected on the shift in party power: "We've seen the Republicans losing support nationally and locally, due in large measure to the disastrous and criminal policies of the Bush administration. Greens take the Constitution seriously." David Bedell, 47, is a write-in candidate for two offices, in State Senate District 27 against Andrew McDonald and Assembly District 148 against Carlo Leone. Bedell, who is also the Green Party candidate for Registrar of Voters, explained, "We're using the new electronic voting machines for the first time in state elections. These Stamford races will be an important test of the system, to make sure that all votes, including write-in votes, are counted." German Tedesco, 55, is running in Assembly District 146 against Gerald Fox III. "It is so important to have a free choice of candidates in every election," he said. "In my native country, Uruguay, there is always a choice of several parties. In fact, the last election was won by a coalition of minor parties." Mr. Tedesco studied law in Uruguay and has lived in Stamford since 2002. He has been a citizen since 2004. Brent Yarnell, 18, is running in Assembly District 147 against William Tong. He will be voting for the first time this year and feels it would be a disappointment to go to the polls only to find he had no choice who to vote for. "Every politician deserves at least token opposition," he said. Both Tedesco and Yarnell have been active in the Duffee for Congress campaign. While the Republicans are not challenging any of the incumbent Democrats, the Democrats in turn are not challenging the sole incumbent Republican, Livvy Floren, in Assembly District 149. The only contested races on the ballot will be for the two open seats being vacated by retiring members: Assembly District 145, which is being sought by Democrat Patricia Miller and Republican Fritz Blau, and State Senate District 36, which will see a three-way race among Republican Scott Frantz, Democrat Mark Diamond, and the Green Party's Zaac Chaves. Chaves will be on the ballot with the major party candidates. ### _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? 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Your gifts and donations are tax deductible ----- Original Message ----- From: David Bedell To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; fairfieldcountygreens at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:18 AM Subject: {news} Write-In Candidates Challenge Five Stamford Incumbents Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org PRESS RELEASE October 29, 2008 Contact: David Bedell, (203)977-8106, dbedell@ greens.org Richard Duffee, (203)286-9697, richard.duffee@ gmail.com German Tedesco, (203)537-8204, german@ allamericanlimoservice.com Brent Yarnell, (203)921-8299, byarnell@ brunswickschool.org WRITE-IN CANDIDATES CHALLENGE FIVE STAMFORD INCUMBENTS Green Party Fills Vacuum Left by Republican Withdrawals STAMFORD, CT -- Most of Stamford's Democratic delegation to the state legislature is up for re-election next Tuesday, but they will find themselves alone on the ballot. The Republican Party is not fielding candidates this year in the 27th State Senate race or in four out of six State Assembly races. However, local members of the Green Party have filed write-in candidacies for these seats, offering voters an alternative to the incumbents. Officially recognized by the Secretary of the State's office, registered write-in candidates' names are posted in the polling places where they are running, and votes for these candidates are tabulated and reported in official election results. Richard Duffee, 60, is running as a write-in candidate in Assembly District 144 against Jim Shapiro. He is also the Green Party candidate for Congress in the 4th District. Mr. Duffee reflected on the shift in party power: "We've seen the Republicans losing support nationally and locally, due in large measure to the disastrous and criminal policies of the Bush administration. Greens take the Constitution seriously." David Bedell, 47, is a write-in candidate for two offices, in State Senate District 27 against Andrew McDonald and Assembly District 148 against Carlo Leone. Bedell, who is also the Green Party candidate for Registrar of Voters, explained, "We're using the new electronic voting machines for the first time in state elections. These Stamford races will be an important test of the system, to make sure that all votes, including write-in votes, are counted." German Tedesco, 55, is running in Assembly District 146 against Gerald Fox III. "It is so important to have a free choice of candidates in every election," he said. "In my native country, Uruguay, there is always a choice of several parties. In fact, the last election was won by a coalition of minor parties." Mr. Tedesco studied law in Uruguay and has lived in Stamford since 2002. He has been a citizen since 2004. Brent Yarnell, 18, is running in Assembly District 147 against William Tong. He will be voting for the first time this year and feels it would be a disappointment to go to the polls only to find he had no choice who to vote for. "Every politician deserves at least token opposition," he said. Both Tedesco and Yarnell have been active in the Duffee for Congress campaign. While the Republicans are not challenging any of the incumbent Democrats, the Democrats in turn are not challenging the sole incumbent Republican, Livvy Floren, in Assembly District 149. The only contested races on the ballot will be for the two open seats being vacated by retiring members: Assembly District 145, which is being sought by Democrat Patricia Miller and Republican Fritz Blau, and State Senate District 36, which will see a three-way race among Republican Scott Frantz, Democrat Mark Diamond, and the Green Party's Zaac Chaves. Chaves will be on the ballot with the major party candidates. ### _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn ?10 hidden secrets? from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. 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URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Sun Nov 2 16:05:00 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:05:00 -0500 Subject: {news} FW: Greens Pledge Their Commitment to Fair Elections Message-ID: <007e01c93d2e$ac2007a0$046016e0$@org> Fyi, Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Green Party of the United States [mailto:office at gp.org] Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:52 PM November 2008 http://www.gp.org/ebulletin/header2.gif News Headlines: Green Party endorses Standing For Voters Pledge The Green Party of the United States has become the first political party to endorse the Election Integrity Pledge promoted by Standing For Voters http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=205358148 &url_num=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.standingforvoters.org%2F , an internet-based group inviting candidates to pledge their commitment to fair elections. Along with the Green Party, several Green Party candidates have pledged 'no early concessions' and actions challenging election outcomes if necessary: presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente; US Congressional candidates Carol Brouillet (Calif.-14), Rebecca Dewitt (Ariz.-4), Harold Burbank (Conn.-5), and Mike Beilstein (Or.-4); and five candidates for state and local offices: Dan Kairis of Illinois, Richard Boyle of California, Rick Lass of New Mexico, Allan Hancock of Minnesota, and Charles A. Pillsbury of Connecticut. "Led by David Cobb, our 2004 presidential candidate, Greens organized the response to the 2004 vote theft. John Kerry and most of his fellow Democrats did nothing after reports and evidence of GOP election manipulation and obstruction of African American and young voters surfaced. Meanwhile, Greens filed for the recounts in Ohio and New Mexico and raised most of the money for legal expenses. It's our special obligation and privilege to be the first party to sign on to the Standing For Voters pledge," said Holly Hart, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. For more on Green leadership in the Ohio and New Mexico recounts, visit IWantMyVote.com http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=205358148 &url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwantmyvote.com%2F . In signing the pledge, Greens sharply condemned recent tactics that have been used to obstruct and discourage voters, especially African Americans in certain states, from voting. Such tactics include letters to voters falsely claiming that they've been declared ineligible to vote, foreclosure lists denying right to vote because a voter's address is "no longer valid," and vicious attacks on voter registration efforts. "The drastic efforts to disqualify legitimate voters suggests that we'll see a repeat of Republican conspiracies to steal the national election. Will Democrats fight this time, or will they roll over again and leave it to the Green Party?" asked Sanda Everette, co-chair of the Green Party. The documentary 'American Blackout' http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=205358148 &url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanblackout.com%2F covers Cynthia McKinney's role in the struggle for election integrity. A recent essay by Ms. McKinney also addresses the breakdown in fair elections (OpEdNews.com, Oct. 7 http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=205358148 &url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opednews.com%2Farticles%2F-Where-s-Kenny-Rog ers-When-by-Cynthia-McKinney-081007-748.html ). The Green Party advocates various systematic reforms to ensure fair, accurate, and truly democratic elections, including public financing of elections, free time on public airwaves for all candidates, repeal of ballot access laws restricting alternative-party and independent candidates, paper verification and open-source software for computer voting systems, instant runoff voting, and proportional representation. According to the Standing For Voters pledge, signers promise to challenge election results "if the combination of election conditions, incident reports, and announced election results calls into question the reliability of the official vote count." Should another candidate be declared the winner in a race, signers vow to "wait until all valid votes are counted and all serious challenges resolved before conceding defeat." "We'd like to see all of the nation's political parties endorse Standing For Voters, as the Green Party has done nationally," said Emily Levy, Standing For Voters Project Coordinator. "As participants in what's commonly known as 'our democratic process,' all parties should commit to fair elections. We welcome endorsements from local, state, and national party organizations, as well as other groups that care about democracy." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Nov 3 14:29:31 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:29:31 +0000 Subject: {news} Remy Chevalier in Easton Courier Message-ID: This is what I like to see in a placeholder campaign: besides holding the ballot line (assuming he gets 1%), Remy has also gained a little recognition for the Green Party, he's promoted our other candidates, and he's gotten some publicity for his own activist work (the Environmental Library Fund). Because there's no Democrat in the race, it's even possible Remy will get more than 10% of the vote without any campaigning. David Bedell http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&id=12765:state-house-race-chevalier-candidate-in-name-only&Itemid=244 STATE HOUSE RACE: Chevalier candidate in name only Monday, November 03, 2008 Remy Chevalier, the Green Party candidate in the state 135th House District race, is a candidate in name only. That?s what Chevalier, a Weston resident, said when he opted not to provide answers to questions from Hersam Acorn Newspapers for its pre-election issue. His name on the ballot, Chevalier said, is ?a placement? to help the Green Party establish itself ?as a viable party.? He later added that he is not running ?an official campaign...,? but hopes the party will have ?someone interested in genuinely running? in the future. His focus is on the campaign of Richard Duffee, the Green Party?s candidate for the 4th Congressional District. Chevalier is Mr. Duffee?s campaign manager. ?The Green Party stands for certain values and issues. We hope to bring more attention to what those are,? Chevalier said. ?We are really spread thin, so it?s just my name on the ballot. We?re putting our energies into the Duffee campaign because he stands to get a good amount of votes.? Chevalier is a ?mastermind? at the Environmental Library Fund, a private ?green? think tank. It is a position he has held since 1984. He lists his education at the American University of Paris on a profile found online. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Remy Chevalier is running against John Stripp, the Republican incumbent. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together?at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/ From rstuller at snet.net Tue Nov 4 06:50:34 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:50:34 -0500 Subject: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David, Do you have the statute/policy for posting names of write-ins? In my district, names were not posted, and I was told that the SOTS had instructed them to have names of write-in candidates available for the asking but not to post them. I can't seem to find the information on the SOTS site. Thanks to anyone who can answer this. Ronna On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:11 AM, David Bedell wrote: > For president and VP, McKinney and Clemente are listed, which means > their > names will be posted on the wall in each polling place and the state > is > required to count their votes. From timmckee at mail.com Tue Nov 4 10:04:23 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:04:23 -0500 Subject: {news} (NEWS RELEASE) CT GREENS TO FILE COMPLAINT OVER BALLOT ISSUES Message-ID: <20081104150423.597CBBE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT News release- November 4,, 2008- for immediate release CONTACT; Tim McKee, Spokesperson and Green National Committee, cell (860) 860-778-1304 (Best) or (860)-643-2282, timmckee at mail.com Mike DeRosa, State Co-Chair (860)956-8170 or (860) 919-4042 (cell) CT GREEN TO FILE COMPLAINT OVER BALLOT SIZE ISSUE Ballot Space for ?write in? votes too small Connecticut Green party officials announce that they would file a complaint with the state elections officials because the space for the ?write in? votes for their candidates and other third parties was too small and questioned whether their votes would be counted. Tim McKee, a spokesperson for the Green Party said ?At less than one inch, and using large black markers, it is next to impossible to ?write in? any candidate for any office. Green Party, Libertarian Party and Constitution Party are once again being discriminated by the poor design of the ballot and that may cost us thousands of votes and future ballot lines. Other states allow average space to write in candidates for ALL offices, but Connecticut design makes it very, very hard. McKee added, ?This is not just about The Green?s Cynthia McKinney or Libertarian?s Bob Barr at the Presidential level, but lower races where we are trying to get ballot lines for local offices as well. Write In candidates have won local races and getting even 1% means a party does not have to petition for often thousands of signatures for each ballot line again.? #end of release# ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstuller at snet.net Tue Nov 4 11:03:53 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:03:53 -0500 Subject: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <56F47351-B504-493C-8A7C-EAAF800F6BE0@snet.net> Okay, now I have the answer to my own question, courtesy of the SOTS, who mailed me the information which I received today (perhaps because I'm listed as an elector?). "The law does not permit posting of the list of registered write-in candidates at the polls..... if an elector asks for the names of registered write-in candidates, the election officials may show an exact copy of the enclosed list to him/her without comment." I received the list of presidential write-ins, but there was no mention of 2nd congressional district write-in Todd Vachon. Ronna On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: > David, > > Do you have the statute/policy for posting names of write-ins? In > my district, names were not posted, and I was told that the SOTS had > instructed them to have names of write-in candidates available for > the asking but not to post them. I can't seem to find the > information on the SOTS site. Thanks to anyone who can answer this. > > Ronna > > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:11 AM, David Bedell wrote: > >> For president and VP, McKinney and Clemente are listed, which means >> their >> names will be posted on the wall in each polling place and the >> state is >> required to count their votes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.duffee at gmail.com Tue Nov 4 12:26:40 2008 From: richard.duffee at gmail.com (Richard Duffee) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:26:40 -0500 Subject: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CT In-Reply-To: <56F47351-B504-493C-8A7C-EAAF800F6BE0@snet.net> References: <56F47351-B504-493C-8A7C-EAAF800F6BE0@snet.net> Message-ID: <21f4f7390811040926g33275342nc217b52d4aba2d90@mail.gmail.com> I believe SOTS is overgeneralizing. The law they are citing is a state statute applying to MUNICIPAL elections, NOT federal law for federal elections. Yet they are applying it to McKinney and Clemente. We may have to sue. Richard On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > Okay, now I have the answer to my own question, courtesy of the SOTS, who > mailed me the information which I received today (perhaps because I'm listed > as an elector?). > "The law does *not* permit posting of the list of registered write-in > candidates at the polls..... if an elector asks for the names of registered > write-in candidates, the election officials may show an exact copy of the > enclosed list to him/her without comment." > > I received the list of presidential write-ins, but there was no mention of > 2nd congressional district write-in Todd Vachon. > > Ronna > > > > On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: > > David, > > Do you have the statute/policy for posting names of write-ins? In my > district, names were not posted, and I was told that the SOTS had instructed > them to have names of write-in candidates available for the asking but not > to post them. I can't seem to find the information on the SOTS site. Thanks > to anyone who can answer this. > > Ronna > > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:11 AM, David Bedell wrote: > > For president and VP, McKinney and Clemente are listed, which means their > > names will be posted on the wall in each polling place and the state is > > required to count their votes. > > > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Nov 4 17:23:27 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:23:27 +0000 Subject: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CT In-Reply-To: <21f4f7390811040926g33275342nc217b52d4aba2d90@mail.gmail.com> References: <56F47351-B504-493C-8A7C-EAAF800F6BE0@snet.net> <21f4f7390811040926g33275342nc217b52d4aba2d90@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Todd Vachon is listed as a registered write-in candidate on the official 2008 list of candidates: http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/lib/sots/electionservices/lists/list_of_candidates/2008_list_of_candidates.pdfThe whole write-in system is screwed up. The list available at my polling place in Stamford was incomplete--it did not list Eugene Flanagan, write-in candidate for Congress in the 4th CD. David Bedell Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:26:40 -0500From: richard.duffee at gmail.comTo: rstuller at snet.netSubject: Re: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CTCC: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; dbedellgreen at hotmail.com I believe SOTS is overgeneralizing. The law they are citing is a state statute applying to MUNICIPAL elections, NOT federal law for federal elections. Yet they are applying it to McKinney and Clemente. We may have to sue. Richard On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUShttp://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/to unsubscribe click heremailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Okay, now I have the answer to my own question, courtesy of the SOTS, who mailed me the information which I received today (perhaps because I'm listed as an elector?). "The law does not permit posting of the list of registered write-in candidates at the polls..... if an elector asks for the names of registered write-in candidates, the election officials may show an exact copy of the enclosed list to him/her without comment." I received the list of presidential write-ins, but there was no mention of 2nd congressional district write-in Todd Vachon. Ronna On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: David,Do you have the statute/policy for posting names of write-ins? In my district, names were not posted, and I was told that the SOTS had instructed them to have names of write-in candidates available for the asking but not to post them. I can't seem to find the information on the SOTS site. Thanks to anyone who can answer this.RonnaOn Oct 23, 2008, at 12:11 AM, David Bedell wrote: For president and VP, McKinney and Clemente are listed, which means their names will be posted on the wall in each polling place and the state is required to count their votes.To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org_______________________________________________CTGP-news mailing listCTGP-news at ml.greens.orghttp://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-newsATTENTION!The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members.NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief.CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. 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Concerned Citizens 5 Connecticut For Lieberman 39 Democratic 122,006 Friends Of Saybrook 1 Green 315 Independence 743 Independent 660 Libertarian 239 Reform 27 Republican 38,693 Unaffiliated 138,088 Winsted Independent 2 Working Families 7 Working Families Party 1 =========== 300,827 NEW VOTERS AGE 18 TO 29 REGISTERED SINCE 01/01/08 PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- ----------- A Connecticut Party 1 Concerned Citizens 1 Connecticut For Lieberman 18 Democratic 53,375 Green 178 Independence 318 Independent 291 Libertarian 137 Reform 10 Republican 13,666 Unaffiliated 62,198 Winsted Independent 1 Working Families 2 Working Families Party 1 =========== 130,197 4 ACTIVE VOTERS BY CONGRESSIONAL PARTY 1 st Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- A Connecticut Party 6 Concerned Citizens 21 Connecticut For Lieberman 35 Democratic 184,122 Green 305 Independence 42 Independent 228 Libertarian 157 Reform 7 Republican 71,062 Unaffiliated 159,715 Winsted Independent 44 Working Families 12 ----------- 415,756 2nd Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- A Connecticut Party 11 A Sentinel Party 35 Concerned Citizens 12 Connecticut For Lieberman 3 Democratic 141,388 Enfield Taxpayers Party 2 Friends Of Saybrook 1 Green 521 Independence 298 Independence For Montville 10 Libertarian 280 Norwich for Change 1 Reform 11 Republican 92,003 Unaffiliated 205,507 Waterford Independent 1 Working Families 3 ----------- 440,087 3 rd Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- A Better Future 3 A Connecticut Party 6 Concerned Citizens 23 5 Connecticut For Lieberman 7 Democratic 171,806 Friends Of Saybrook 11 Green 447 Independence 369 Independent 287 Libertarian 128 Reform 42 Republican 64,891 Unaffiliated 179,997 Working Families 1 ----------- 418,018 4 th Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- A Connecticut Party 23 Concerned Citizens 12 Connecticut For Lieberman 7 Democratic 146,140 Friends Of Saybrook 4 Green 283 Independence 835 Independent 926 Libertarian 244 Orange Taxpayers 8 Reform 36 Republican 103,369 Unaffiliated 157,074 ---------- 408,961 5 th Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- A Connecticut Party 4 Concerned Citizens 195 Connecticut For Lieberman 8 Democratic 136,350 Friends Of Saybrook 3 Green 350 Independence 153 Independent 901 Libertarian 178 Pro-Bethel 5 Reform 10 Republican 95,694 Swing 1 Unaffiliated 181,014 Working Families 1 Working Families Party 1 ----------- 414,868 6 NEW VOTERS BY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT AS OF 01/01/08 1 st Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- Connecticut For Lieberman 27 Democratic 28,867 Green 68 Independence 1 Independent 65 Libertarian 41 Reform 2 Republican 6,748 Unaffiliated 26,359 Winsted Independent 2 Working Families 4 ----------- 62,184 2nd Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- Connecticut For Lieberman 1 Democratic 19,730 Green 83 Independence 134 Libertarian 66 Reform 7 Republican 8,574 Unaffiliated 30,678 Working Families 2 ----------- 59,275 3 rd Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- Concerned Citizens 1 Connecticut For Lieberman 4 Democratic 27,899 Green 60 Independence 201 Independent 101 Libertarian 31 Reform 2 Republican 6,212 Unaffiliated 27,915 ---------- 62,426 4 th Congressional PARTY COUNT 7 -------------------------------------------------- --------- A Connecticut Party 1 Concerned Citizens 3 Connecticut For Lieberman 3 Democratic 25,715 Friends Of Saybrook 1 Green 44 Independence 386 Independent 201 Libertarian 65 Reform 16 Republican 9,131 Unaffiliated 27,597 ----------- 63,163 5 th Congressional PARTY COUNT -------------------------------------------------- --------- Concerned Citizens 1 Connecticut For Lieberman 4 Democratic 19,836 Green 60 Independence 21 Independent 295 Libertarian 36 Republican 8,033 Unaffiliated 25,600 Working Families 1 Working Families Party 1 ----------- 53,888 Monthly Voter Registration Totals JAN 22,404 MAY 14,435 SEP 43,243 FEB 19,603 JUN 12,916 OCT 134,502 MAR 8,784 JUL 17,280 APR 9,903 AUG 18,840 ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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I vote in Broad Brook, CT and went to the polls at 8:00 AM after verifying that the write in option was available. Upon receiving my ballot, I instantly noticed how small the space was, especially with regard to the necessary writing utensil. I inquired about the size and if my vote would count if I was unable to write small enough, but the clerk had no idea what to tell me. She told me to go ahead and if there was a problem, I could come back and get a new one. I carefully wrote Mckinney/Clemente as neat and tiny as possible and placed my ballot in the scanner. At that time it did not kick out, but I am wondering if there was still a possibility that it did not count. My husband did the same later in the day and had a much more difficult time writing small enough-so legibility was an issue too. While I know that our two votes will not change today's results, I still would like to know that my right to choose my candidate was validated. 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URL: From richard.duffee at gmail.com Wed Nov 5 14:08:14 2008 From: richard.duffee at gmail.com (Richard Duffee) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:08:14 -0500 Subject: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CT In-Reply-To: References: <56F47351-B504-493C-8A7C-EAAF800F6BE0@snet.net> <21f4f7390811040926g33275342nc217b52d4aba2d90@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <21f4f7390811051108l4014bddfkcf5614425bb08dc6@mail.gmail.com> Right, we have to find out how it's doing all around the state. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:23 PM, David Bedell wrote: > Todd Vachon is listed as a registered write-in candidate on the official > 2008 list of candidates: > > http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/lib/sots/electionservices/lists/list_of_candidates/2008_list_of_candidates.pdf > > > The whole write-in system is screwed up. The list available at my polling > place in Stamford was incomplete--it did not list Eugene Flanagan, write-in > candidate for Congress in the 4th CD. > > David Bedell > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:26:40 -0500 > From: richard.duffee at gmail.com > To: rstuller at snet.net > Subject: Re: {news} McKinney is registered write-in candidate in CT > CC: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; dbedellgreen at hotmail.com > > > > I believe SOTS is overgeneralizing. The law they are citing is a state > statute applying to MUNICIPAL elections, NOT federal law for federal > elections. Yet they are applying it to McKinney and Clemente. We may have to > sue. > Richard > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > Okay, now I have the answer to my own question, courtesy of the SOTS, who > mailed me the information which I received today (perhaps because I'm listed > as an elector?). > "The law does *not* permit posting of the list of registered write-in > candidates at the polls..... if an elector asks for the names of registered > write-in candidates, the election officials may show an exact copy of the > enclosed list to him/her without comment." > > I received the list of presidential write-ins, but there was no mention of > 2nd congressional district write-in Todd Vachon. > > Ronna > > > > On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Ronna Stuller wrote: > > David, > > Do you have the statute/policy for posting names of write-ins? In my > district, names were not posted, and I was told that the SOTS had instructed > them to have names of write-in candidates available for the asking but not > to post them. I can't seem to find the information on the SOTS site. Thanks > to anyone who can answer this. > > Ronna > > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:11 AM, David Bedell wrote: > > For president and VP, McKinney and Clemente are listed, which means their > > names will be posted on the wall in each polling place and the state is > > required to count their votes. > > > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. 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Dist - Registered Greens 1 305 2 521 3 447 4 283 5 350 total 1906 David Bedell _________________________________________________________________ Get 5 GB of storage with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_5gb_112008 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Nov 5 15:52:37 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:52:37 +0000 Subject: {news} CT Greens at 19,706 (Nov.3,2008) Sof State CT Message-ID: Another interesting figure to watch is the Republican Party enrollment. It now stands at 20.36% of total voters. If that figure falls below 20% AND the Republican candidate for Governor gets under 20%, then the Republican Party becomes a minor party under state law. 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The sample ballots are offered to voters to review before casting their votes. Deshefy said the poll workers apologized, told him it was unintentional and posted a different sample ballot with the word ?void? written across the bottom. ?A lot of people will see, ?Void,? and say that?s off limits,? Deshefy said of the original sample, adding he wondered how many other towns had the same problem with ballots. As part of his campaigning, Deshefy stopped by the Mohegan Fire Co., where his great uncle Emil Deshefy is listed among the original members. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 From timmckee at mail.com Thu Nov 6 17:25:36 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:25:36 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens thank pres. candidates McKinney & Clemente, congratulate Obama on his historic win Message-ID: <20081106222541.9C9D411581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens thank pres. candidates McKinney & Clemente, congratulate Obama on his historic win Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:48:17 +0000 GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 6, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens thank national candidates Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, congratulate Barack Obama on his historic White House victory WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States thanked Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, Green candidates for President and Vice President, for their strong national campaign in the 2008 election. The party also congratulated Barack Obama on his election to the White House today, and celebrated the election of America's first African American President. "Even though we competed with Sen. Obama for votes in the presidential race, we're thrilled that voters have elected an African American President, something unimaginable a generation ago. We're just as thrilled that our own presidential ticket -- Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are two women of African descent, and Ms. Clemente is Black Puerto Rican -- represented the voices of so many Americans who've been shut out of the system," said Clyde Shabazz, Green candidate for Congress in Michigan's 14th District. Greens noted that voters expressed a mandate for change in the hope that President-elect Obama would follow through on his pledge of "Change We Can Believe In" and reverse the dangerous direction that the country has taken. "Voters who were motivated by Barack Obama's message of change will now have to fight if they really want change to take place during the next four years," said Jill Bussiere, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "Rosa Clemente, our candidate for Vice President, talked about the Green Party's 'imperative' throughout the campaign. The Green Imperative will move forward during the Obama Administration, as people demand that change be more than a campaign slogan." MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections ? 2008 Green candidates to watch http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://votetruth08.com http://www.rosaclemente.com ~ END ~ _________________________________________________________________ Get 5 GB of storage with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_5gb_112008 _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 9-30-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee. C. Reports: 1. (10 minutes): GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney: write-in issues at polling places; results. 2. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 3. (10-15 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 4. (10-15 minutes): G.Scott Dehefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 5. (10-15 minutes): Ralph Ferrucci, endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line: overview of campaign. 6. (10-15 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; overview of campaign. 7. (10-15 minutes): Harold Burbank, Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District; overview of campaign. 8. (15-20 minutes): Discussion about the other CTGP candidates for public office and election results. 9. (5-10minutes): CTGP literature. 10. (5-10 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. 11. (2-5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. 12. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009. 13. (2-5 minutes, each): Chapter reports. 14. Date and place for December SCC meeting: Tuesday, 12-16-08 or 12-23-08 or 12-30-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 12-08: to be determined. 15. 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Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 9-30-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee. C. Reports: 1. (10 minutes): GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney: write-in issues at polling places; results. 2. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 3. (10-15 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 4. (10-15 minutes): G.Scott Dehefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 5. (10-15 minutes): Ralph Ferrucci, endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line: overview of campaign. 6. (10-15 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; overview of campaign. 7. (10-15 minutes): Harold Burbank, Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District; overview of campaign. 8. (15-20 minutes): Discussion about the other CTGP candidates for public office and election results. 9. (5-10minutes): CTGP literature. 10. (5-10 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. 11. (2-5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. 12. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009. 13. (2-5 minutes, each): Chapter reports. 14. Date and place for December SCC meeting: Tuesday, 12-16-08 or 12-23-08 or 12-30-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 12-08: to be determined. 15. 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URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sat Nov 8 08:07:54 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:07:54 -0500 Subject: {news} Hawaii County latest community to make marijuana 'lowest priority, ' but police say no changes Message-ID: Every thing that was present in pre world war II Germany exist within this country today. Only Obama is different, I hope that he has not been bought and sold. How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. ~Adolf Hitler Hawaii County latest community to make marijuana 'lowest priority,' but police say no changes By Associated Press 7:09 AM EST, November 8, 2008 http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-hawaii-marijuana,0,1489469.story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd_3HowvKlA HILO, Hawaii (AP) _ Hawaii County police and federal authorities say they will continue enforcing marijuana laws on the Big Island despite the passage of a ballot initiative making it the lowest priority for law enforcement. Voters approved the measure 34,957 to 25,464 in Tuesday's election. It was one of several victories for advocates of less punitive marijuana penalties. Massachusetts became the 13th state to decriminalize the herb; Michigan became the 13th state to legalize medical marijuana, and Fayetteville, Ark., also passed a resolution making marijuana the college town's lowest law enforcement priority. Other cities that have previously passed "lowest priority" initiatives in recent years include Denver, Seattle and Eureka Springs, Ark., as well as the California cities of Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and Oakland. In San Francisco and West Hollywood, similar measures were passed by elected officials. But Hawaii County Police Chief Lawrence Mahuna said the measure is a resolution, not a law, and added, "there will be no change how we prioritize the enforcement of marijuana. The resolution does not invalidate federal law. It doesn't legalize marijuana. It's still a Schedule 1 controlled substance, he said. "We will continue in our efforts to reduce the availability of illegal marijuana," he said. County Corporation Counsel Lincoln Ashida disagreed with Mahuna's assertion that the approved measure isn't a law. The County Charter states an initiative approved by voters becomes a county ordinance, or law. Ashida said that under the new law, the County Council can't accept funds for marijuana eradication programs, and the county clerk must send an annual letter to state and federal elected officials requesting that "government remove criminal penalties for the cultivation, possession and use of cannabis for adult personal use." Meanwhile, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said passage of the initiative won't change its approach to the enforcement of federal law. "In a nutshell, we're going to continue to enforce the drug laws, which includes marijuana," said Tony Williams, DEA assistant special agent in charge, speaking from Honolulu. He said the focus will remain on those who cultivate marijuana and distribute narcotics. The measure was pushed by the group Project Peaceful Sky, whose director, Adam Lehmann, said it doesn't decriminalize marijuana. "It's only for adult personal use on private property," he said. 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URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Nov 9 09:00:37 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:00:37 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: An Open Letter to Ralph Nadar About His Dis to Obama Message-ID: > An Open Letter to Ralph Nader About His Dis to Obama > > By Davey D Davey > D's Hip Hop Corner > November 7, 2008 > > http://hiphopnews.yuku.com/topic/917 > > Oh, Mr. Nader, in your bittersweet resentment of Barack > Obama you have allowed your envy to dictate your action > and called our first Black President-elect an "Uncle > Tom", and allowed the enemy to call the kettle black. > > I can understand that as a revolutionary you may simply > see just another Democrat taking the throne of an > American presidency. You may think that he is an > establishment leader and thus the change he brings is > nothing more than temporary reform. > > You have chosen to focus on the tree instead of the > forest so that you can continue to promote your own > political agenda. > > When southern Blacks forced integration, they did not > build black-only diners and then open them up to the > whites. They walked into already established whites- > only restaurants and took a place at the table. The > only way to revolutionize the establishment was to > become a part of it and then redefine it with new > institutions both tangible and abstract. And even when > they played by the constitutional rules, they were still > killed, beaten and broken down. > > You Mr. Nader may believe that your revolutionary > stance and inclusive policy proposals allow you the > right to critique this new Black president and his so- > called "change" platform in the manner that you did. > But you certainly never called any other president an > "Uncle Tom." And quite frankly you sounded like the > white boy who got invited to the house party and > thought he was cool enough now to use the "N" word. > > And like the white boy at the house party, you were > sorely mistaken. > > Your points were relevant when you questioned Obama's > economic policies and voting record. However, when you > decided to use a racial epithet to describe the type of > man Obama might be should he not hold the corporate > elite accountable, your ideas got lost in translation > and you became a "racist. " > > You gave fodder to FOX News, a white supremacist news > network, to use against our movement and highlight a > division that may or may not truly exist. Honestly, you > are from an older generation that sees race in terms > quite differently then my own generation. My > generation, my people, Hip Hop culture, gave rise to > this Black president because we understand that you > must free your mind first and the rest will follow. > > Mr. Nader, come join our revolution. Let your fear go. > Your time has passed you need to embrace the future. > > Krsta Keating of Revolutionize yo' Block > Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible > From efficacy at msn.com Sun Nov 9 10:29:57 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:29:57 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: An Open Letter to Ralph Nadar About His Dis to Obama Message-ID: As Ms. Kane states below--this is what was actually said as I heard it too; > Cliff: > I watched Nader's interview on Fox and he said obama had a choice to > either be an Uncle Tom for the corporate interests or challenge their > power. He didn't call Obama an uncle Tom. A fine distinction, but a real > one. > As you know, the media loves controversy and Nader sure gave them > (excuse the pun) a colorul quote. > > > Patricia Kane > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Clifford Thornton > To: ctgp-news ; steeringcom at green.gpus.org; > connlist > Cc: Kevin Zeese > Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2008 9:00:37 AM > Subject: {news} Fw: An Open Letter to Ralph Nadar About His Dis to Obama > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > An Open Letter to Ralph Nader About His Dis to Obama > > > > By Davey D Davey > > D's Hip Hop Corner > > November 7, 2008 > > > > http://hiphopnews.yuku.com/topic/917 > > > > Oh, Mr. Nader, in your bittersweet resentment of Barack > > Obama you have allowed your envy to dictate your action > > and called our first Black President-elect an "Uncle > > Tom", and allowed the enemy to call the kettle black. > > > > I can understand that as a revolutionary you may simply > > see just another Democrat taking the throne of an > > American presidency. You may think that he is an > > establishment leader and thus the change he brings is > > nothing more than temporary reform. > > > > You have chosen to focus on the tree instead of the > > forest so that you can continue to promote your own > > political agenda. > > > > When southern Blacks forced integration, they did not > > build black-only diners and then open them up to the > > whites. They walked into already established whites- > > only restaurants and took a place at the table. The > > only way to revolutionize the establishment was to > > become a part of it and then redefine it with new > > institutions both tangible and abstract. And even when > > they played by the constitutional rules, they were still > > killed, beaten and broken down. > > > > You Mr. Nader may believe that your revolutionary > > stance and inclusive policy proposals allow you the > > right to critique this new Black president and his so- > > called "change" platform in the manner that you did. > > But you certainly never called any other president an > > "Uncle Tom." And quite frankly you sounded like the > > white boy who got invited to the house party and > > thought he was cool enough now to use the "N" word. > > > > And like the white boy at the house party, you were > > sorely mistaken. > > > > Your points were relevant when you questioned Obama's > > economic policies and voting record. However, when you > > decided to use a racial epithet to describe the type of > > man Obama might be should he not hold the corporate > > elite accountable, your ideas got lost in translation > > and you became a "racist. " > > > > You gave fodder to FOX News, a white supremacist news > > network, to use against our movement and highlight a > > division that may or may not truly exist. Honestly, you > > are from an older generation that sees race in terms > > quite differently then my own generation. My > > generation, my people, Hip Hop culture, gave rise to > > this Black president because we understand that you > > must free your mind first and the rest will follow. > > > > Mr. Nader, come join our revolution. Let your fear go. > > Your time has passed you need to embrace the future. > > > > Krsta Keating of Revolutionize yo' Block > > > Efficacy > PO Box 1234 > 860 657 8438 > Hartford, CT 06143 > efficacy at msn.com > www.Efficacy-online.org > > "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" > > Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit > 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax > deductible > > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete > the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or > face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or > legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal > legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of > the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is > solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party > hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post > confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, > and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is > always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party > under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, > misdirection, or general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail > transmission may contain confidential information. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is > intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files > if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > From ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net Sun Nov 9 18:16:26 2008 From: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net (RALPH FERRUCCI) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:16:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} congressional numbers versus presidential Message-ID: <282679.58048.qm@web81008.mail.mud.yahoo.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net Sun Nov 9 18:21:40 2008 From: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net (RALPH FERRUCCI) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:21:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} congressional numbers versus presidential Message-ID: <281927.61453.qm@web81008.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In the last few years we have fought many fights as a party. Are we making any difference? Here is my thoughts. If Cliff did not run for Governor or myself for Senate. If Mike did not run for for Secretary of the State, etc. we would not have received more votes than Ralph Nader did. Ralph Nader got 19,258 votes in the 5 districts while the Green Party's 5 Congressional Candidates received? combined number of 25,734. We should be very proud of this. Not one of our candidates is nearly as famous as Nader and yet we still did better than him in almost all 5 districts. Ralph Ferrucci -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Sun Nov 9 23:22:18 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:22:18 -0500 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center In-Reply-To: <20081107134215.C918A1BF28D@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <20081110042216.TTDX8828.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Thanks for that thought, Tim. Mike and Vic will double check. It typically is not a problem, because Vic gets the keys for when the building is typically closed. Barbara Barry _____ From: Tim McKee [mailto:timmckee at mail.com] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:42 AM To: B Barry; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net; haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Are 100% sure that the building with be open..it is verterns day ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Barry" To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net, haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:32:38 -0500 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 9-30-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee. C. Reports: 1. (10 minutes): GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney: write-in issues at polling places; results. 2. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 3. (10-15 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 4. (10-15 minutes): G.Scott Dehefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 5. (10-15 minutes): Ralph Ferrucci, endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line: overview of campaign. 6. (10-15 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; overview of campaign. 7. (10-15 minutes): Harold Burbank, Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District; overview of campaign. 8. (15-20 minutes): Discussion about the other CTGP candidates for public office and election results. 9. (5-10minutes): CTGP literature. 10. (5-10 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. 11. (2-5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. 12. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009. 13. (2-5 minutes, each): Chapter reports. 14. Date and place for December SCC meeting: Tuesday, 12-16-08 or 12-23-08 or 12-30-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 12-08: to be determined. 15. 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The GPRI will be replacing me eventually. I am also stepping down from the GPUS committees I am on, and stepping down from my state party CC. About a year ago I decided to step down from all official positions right after the 2008 election so for the first time in 24 years I will hold no official Green Party positions or be a member of any committees, not that I ever needed an official position to make things happen or cause trouble. In 1979 I heard about the German Greens, and immediately said we need a Green Party here. In February 1984 I heard about a Green meeting in Maine and went. I have served on various state and national committees continuously ever since, so I am looking forward to having no official Green duties other than subscribing folks to my state party list serve. I will continue to be very active in Green Politics and the Green Party, and think at this time I can be much more useful outside the bureaucracy so it is time to rotate out for a very long time, and hopefully permanently. I have no doubt others will continue to step up to keep this grand experiment in politics going. Over the last few years, starting with the early 2003 beginnings of the 2004 presidential cycle I have played a key role in the political committees of the GPUS, serving at various times as chair of the Coordinated Campaign Committee and the Presidential Campaign Support Committee. This report has several sections, a section on the CCC and the state of Green campaigns for office, a section on the PCSC and presidential politics, a section on the NC, and some additional thoughts. The CCC The least place complicated place to start is with the CCC. Well over 1 million people cast a vote for Green candidates this fall. Not what we hoped for, but not something to sneeze at. Over One Million People cast a vote for Green candidates. Over 2.6 million votes in total. 522,000 people cast votes for Greens for Congress, a new record. Our candidates for Congress averaged more than 8000 votes, also a record, lead by Abel Tomlinson in Arkansas with 35000, the most a Green running for Congress has ever received. A number of other Congressional candidates exceeded 20000 votes, including Titus North in PA. Rebekah Kennedy lead Senate candidates with 206,000 votes. Rick Lass received over 75000 votes in New Mexico running for Public Regulatory Commission. Jesse Johnson received over 31000 votes in WV. When we run we continue to do well. Where we seem weakest is in running for State legislature. It is what I ran for twice, getting 16% and 20% in 3 way races the two times I tested the waters, and it seems a great office for Greens to run for, but we have a dearth of candidates. The short version of why so few Greens pick state legislature as to what to run for is this. Greens love to talk big picture, especially war and peace. If you want to talk about that you run for Congress, even though no one has ever even come close to winning as a Green. But it feels good and is a bully pulpit, or at least can be. At the other end of the spectrum, Greens win really local races, up to City Council and Mayor, including water boards, school boards , and sewer districts, so if you are ready to win, that is what you run for.. While we win some state reps seats ( usually 1 in an election cycle) the success ratio is very low even though so many seats are in one candidate districts. And while the issues are big, the races get little media coverage, and it is not war and peace. It is a great seat to run for to talk about the local economy and the transformation of the economy to a relocalized Green economy, but that is tough to talk about in our communities, and often the districts are pretty large, meaning a big effort is required. Right now the success to effort ratio is not very good for the most part, whereas with Congress there is not yet an expectation of winning so it is psychologically a smaller barrier. I have seen several discussions over the years of a legislative strategy or a House strategy. I think this is less a strategy and more a doing. But good candidates only sometimes lead to more good candidates and it is easy to run out the string. We have done a bit of that in a number of states, with fewer candidates this year than in past years. Each year some new states run record numbers of candidates, and others run fewer. This year AR and IL lead the way, while CA surprised us with a dearth of candidates and RI fell flat. As for the CCC, I would suggest y?all do not even call for an election this year and let the committee die. Its original mission was to give out money, but it has been years since we had any money to give out. Understanding that the committee tried to turn itself into a learning community, trying to help each other become better at helping candidates, and succeeded well enough that each year whatever membership we had drifted off to either run for office or manage a local campaign. Rick Lass is the prime example this year. That left the committee with maybe 2 active members, and business ground to a complete halt. So the CCC is not a failure, it helped Greens run better races, but maybe there is a better way to help Greens run better races. At the end of this report I will discuss one way I am going to pick up some of this, and I expect that there are plenty of things the NC or some other official body could do in this respect as well. One official duty I will miss is providing a sounding board for the political director. I think I really helped him do his job better, and I know we both learned much through this regular communication. Presidential politics Over the last 5 years I have probably played a big role in determining what the Green Party process for seeking the presidential nomination. I wrote extensively about the 2004 process in Green Party Tempest, then tried to build upon what we learned in 2004 for 2008. I know my role was not universally welcomed, I received death threats and threats of violence for taking on this role. I tried to give the role away, said to everyone repeatedly, if you have a better idea, then lets see it and lets put it to work, but no one came up with a better idea or at least no one tried to implement one that lead to an actual nominating process that was open to all candidates who chose to follow it. So I kept working. The basic core of how to get the nomination was developed prior to the 2004 presidential campaign by the PCSC. Each state party holds a primary or some sort of caucus/convention. The state parties allocate their delegations to the national convention based on the proportion of votes each candidate received in their primary or caucus. Whoever got a majority of the votes at the national convention would be the nominee. What it meant was that anyone seeking the nomination really had to campaign all over the country and really talk to Greens. In 2004 state parties were only marginally versed in the process, but essentially it worked. Several candidates sought the nomination and David Cobb out worked and out organized them and was nominated. The Naderites, not the Green Supporters of a Nader Green candidacy, but those who wanted Ralph or nothing, never forgave us for not nominating the candidate who did not want the nomination and would not seek it. They still do not forgive us for actually setting up a process based on the state parties, in other words a process based on the GPUS as a federation of state parties in which if a candidate wants to be nominated they have to actually run for the nomination. So be it. For 2008 the PCSC tried to make sure that the state parties and candidates were much more prepared. It did not work out quite as well as we had hoped, but we produced pretty good manuals for the state parties and the candidates that laid out what they were expected to do and how it all worked. The candidates and state parties that read the manual found it useful, but ask yourself if your state party used the manual at all and shared it widely or not. It was sent to every NC delegate and many other Greens around the country. We also made sure there were people available to talk to every state party that had questions and proactively sought the state parties out to ask them if they were ready and what they needed. We did the same thing with candidates. I had primary responsibility for talking to potential candidates, mostly because no one else was willing to do it. The members of the PCSC were regularly encouraged to pick up the phone and call candidates and talk about the campaign, but most never did. I ended up talking to about 25 candidates, most of whom had one conversation with me and were never heard from again. It was the American dream that anyone can be president that lead them to consider running. The reality check was when they were told what it would actually take to run. The 4 candidates that made it to the convention, Jesse Johnson, Kent Mesplay, kat swift, and the eventual nominee Cynthia McKinney were the only candidates willing to actually travel the road. While the role of first person to have a semi official talk with anyone considering seeking the nomination was controversial for a small number of people in the party, it was clear to me, and I think to anyone else who really thought about it, that the role is needed. We need someone to have initial conversations with anyone seeking the presidential nomination, if for no other reason than to inform them simply and clearly how the process works. If this person does a screening, so much the better. It probably needs to be a person on the PCSC, but it does not have to be chair, and in fact it might be better if it is not the chair. But it really needs to be someone who knows the process, knows politics, and has extensive contacts with members of the various state Green Parties around the country. It also needs to be someone who can credibly tell people how difficult it is to run and how much work it is to do it well. We do not need people who were kidnapped by Aliens and are now following instructions beamed to them through the wires the CIA implanted in their brains publicly announcing they are running for office and embarrassing everyone. That I screened out such candidates brought me harassment, but also was good for the party. None of our candidates in 2008 put together an effective outreach or fundraising strategy. None of them were really willing in a timely manner to pick up the phone and call every member of every state party coordinating committee, which is exactly how anyone really thinking about getting the nomination ought to begin. I get the feeling the whole process is too long and arduous for those with limited resources, like any Green. An early nomination does not seem to help us deal with the length of the campaign if resources are hard are hard to find. The state parties were not ready to look at candidates 2.5 years into the 4 year cycle, nor are the potential nominees able to come up with resources early enough to make this particularly practical. But starting later is not a real good option either. I hope y?all think about this much more and with more information in hand. Our presidential ticket, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are to be congratulated. The were road warriors that were really on message the whole time. There were many weaknesses in the set up of the campaign, some of which have been discussed by members of the party on various lists, and we need to learn from that experience, but let us first remember that the 143000 votes they received is a jump of nearly 20% over the 2004 Green Presidential vote, and the percentage of the vote also increased by nearly 20%. Some call it failure, but I consider it forward progress in a very difficult climate. Here is the short version of what I think I have learned. I think we have to realistically assess the state of the outside world, not in deciding whether or not to run a Green Presidential candidate, I believe we should always do that, but in preparing ourselves for how well our candidate will do. I never drank the 5% Kool Aid, and think we ought to quit thinking about it, it is a false god. Something I think I have finally learned is that really bad Presidents like George Bush make our job much tougher. When evil holds that office everyone is looking for a lesser evil. When a phony progressive like Bill Clinton holds the office people left of center in America get so disappointed they look our way. I think 2012 just might be a good year for us if we can find anyone willing to seek the nomination. I think there is only a limited pool of money available to an actual Green Presidential nominee. Not to say any of our candidates have ever set up a great fundraising effort or learned how to use the internet for fundraising particularly effectively, but the pool is not real deep and it can be drained by non Greens who set up shop early. Expectations of a well funded campaign are not well grounded in reality, and the campaign plan ought to reflect that. This year we did a much better job with internet campaigning than in the past. But still not good enough. We used U tube a lot, but were not very good at viral messaging. Even our core membership did not take the actions necessary to use this medium effectively. I know I looked at videos and rated them, but I never did DIGG a video. I expect we shall be better at this in 2012, but we shall still be several years behind the curve, chasing a horizon that is always moving. On various lists I have seen critiques pointing out that our candidates did not have a strong organizational structure. There was no campaign manager, except for a two week fiasco, no place to go with questions that had a reasonable chance of getting an answer, no real good calendar, no way to know if your event was going to get on the schedule. This happens in underfunded campaigns, but I also think we could have done a lot better if Cynthia had let us help her more, and had thought more about how to set up good communications channels. Several of us helped pull together a network of leaders of the various state efforts, but often we had nothing to offer except commiseration. The issue of getting confirmations for events and information on when and where the candidates would be may have hurt the campaign the most. Rosa eventually worked out for herself a way to communicate effectively, via the list serve for state coordinators, but Cynthia always left us up in the air about the day to day nitty gritty of campaigning even as she was speaking out so well on the issues. This is the bread and butter of campaigns, and a good system might have helped us get 100000 or 200000 more votes. The critiques of the response to questionnaires was more off base. We did develop a writing team, Ann Link worked closely with John Judge to make sure every questionnaire that came in was put in front of the writers. We were not inundated with reliable writers, the writers who were reliable could only handle so much, and often questions came in on very short notice. Yes, stuff got missed, and this could have gotten off the ground earlier, but it worked, even if not to anyone?s satisfaction. I know there is going to be a tendency to want to rework the whole presidential process between now and 2012. I suggest proceeding with a bit of caution. Figure out what actually worked and what worked less well. Ask the people who were inside the process as well as those observers from the outside. Figure out among the things that worked less well if the process is flawed or the practice was just weak. I strongly urge everyone involved in the discussions to reread the manuals for state parties and candidates as a prelude to this process and to think long and hard about how to improve the process actually found in the manuals, rather than your impressions of what the process is, before wholesale tinkering with the process. Consider the calendar carefully. I know some folks are clamoring for an early nomination, but if we are to ever develop into a major political party, then we need to get used to the calendar the D?s and R?s have worked out and swim in it. This means using primaries when ever possible, respecting state guidelines for conventions, doing things the same day as the other parties when possible so our activists do not miss out on the spirit of primaries and caucuses and get tempted to stray. I think we also need to consider the length of the campaign versus the resources that are likely to be available and keep it shorter rather than longer. The issue of apportionment is one that should not haunt us, but seems to. One reason we are a federation of state parties is so that no one or two big states can dominate the process, nor can it be dominated by states in one stage of evolution or with similar election laws. Every state party has to feel they have a real say in the game or it does not work, and we have to make up for the imbalances in the state laws rather than exclude states because of bad ballot access laws. Yes, lots of different kind of apportionments can work and be fair, but our current one seems to reflect pretty well the mix of what we have to deal with. Big states get more votes, little state parties fewer, and it takes a national campaign to win the nomination. The best indication that it is a decent process is that twice in a row the candidate that worked the hardest and put together the best campaign won the nomination, and then was a good spokesperson and road warrior from convention to election. The National Committee Of all the Green institutions I am leaving the one I will miss the least is the NC. I helped develop some of the rules we use to govern our actions. I had hopes that the NC could be a learning community and a force for innovation and creativity in the party, and would be a place to train Greens for dealing with legislative business. Instead it has become an incredibly conservative body, stifling innovation and creativity and allowed itself to become bogged down in minutia and irrelevancies. The NC still makes good decisions, recent votes have nearly always shown the overall common sense of the body, but the process for getting there is beyond reason. The slow grind of the NC has mostly wasted folks time and provided bad examples of how to do politics. Two recent examples will suffice. We held an election for the SC last summer. We have the process of certifying the election by NC vote. It became apparent that one or two votes were mishandled in some very minor accidental way that in no way cast doubt on either the integrity of the vote or the results. The discussion around the certification included hundreds of emails, primarily from the same 6 or so people. The tone of the debate was dire. But if you looked at the vote, not a single vote was swayed by the discussion into voting against certification and the election was certified overwhelmingly. The 9 people who voted against certification all made that clear on Day One they were voting against, so the entire debate added almost nothing to the process except to let a few people vent over and over. Something legislators learn is when and where to expend political capital. I have brought as many resolutions before the NC as anyone. Some you argue for daily, actually changing people?s minds, but some are clearly going to be a one sided vote. Why expend effort on a vote that will not be close, why annoy everyone on such an issue. Why not save the political capital to expend when it will actually do some good? In addition, think of the NC as being a meeting. No meeting would let such a small group dominate the discussion to so little purpose. Another discussion that was highly annoying was the effort by Les Evenchick to convince the TX delegation they did not know the laws of TX and that he knew better. A perfect example of the type of discussion that y?all need a way to just plain take off the table as a waste of bandwidth. Beyond this type of bandwidth wasting, the NC seems to draw like flies those who wish to hear their own voice and do no real work. Most delegates approach this work properly, but there are those who would never propose a real solution, but are happy to carp all day about the work others are at least willing to do. The culture of the NC needs to change into one that welcomes innovation, welcomes initiative, welcomes experiments and has no patience with critics who do no work. The best example of this is that Gary Novosielski is obsessed with Roberts Rules of Order, considering them a wonderful system for running the Green Party process. But Gary has NEVER introduced a resolution laying out the implementation of RROO for the GPUS. This despite the fact that he has on a number of occasions been specifically and individually asked to produce said resolution. He will criticize everyone, but never put his own work in front of the body. I consider him a bully and a coward, a person without the courage of conviction, willing to try intimidation every day, but never do a lick of work. No wonder he lobs the occasional F bomb my way, he has no other tools that he knows how to use. But he and a few of his ilk set the tone for the NC, and have turned it into one of the least effective organizations on the face of the earth. I will miss some of the messages from my colleagues, but not the excruciating painful work of the body. As for myself, I have some great projects coming up. My new think tank on economic policy, Prosperity for Rhode Island, is starting to make waves and helping shift the paradigm of discussion in Rhode Island. And I was just funded to help Providence and the surrounding communities come up with a real composting system, from a to z, including household collection and returning compost to community gardens and other food growers. My only real Green Party project for the next few years is to develop a network/business focused on helping Green candidates run better. It will be called something like the Green Party Candidate Resource Center. It will consist of a small number of Greens who are experts in the various arts of campaigns. We shall provide services to candidates, essentially consulting services, and get paid for this work. I figure that we will get paid only if we provide enough value to candidates that it helps their campaigns raise enough money to pay us. We provide little of value, we do not get paid. We make a difference, we get paid. No fuss, no muss, no bureaucracy. No NC to answer to. No critics allowed or paid attention to. As with most of my recent Green work, you think you can do it better, I encourage you to show us. You think you can help candidates more, set up your own consulting network and provide better service. We all know we can use a lot more of this than one small network can provide, there is plenty of room for growth, and if you do it really well, I can go on to the next thing that needs doing. I am betting the people who like my work the least will complain about this, call it a rogue operation, but never lift a finger to actually work with a candidate or do anything else that really needs doing. So, I bid you adieu. I may hang out on the list for two or three more days so I can see the goodbyes and good riddances (knowing I will not read the good riddances any more than I read all the other recent posts from those who would feel that way about me). I know I will be off the lists before I go away on a short vacation so I do not have hundreds of useless emails to read when I return, but I have many good friends among the people on the NC and various committees receiving this, and will continue to enjoy the comments and correspondence of my friends. I know I will continue to work with them on Green politics, and that in 2012 I will be talking to many of them on behalf of which ever Green seeking the presidential nomination catches my eye as the one most likely to put the right campaign together. Greg Gerritt GPRI From timmckee at mail.com Mon Nov 10 13:24:35 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:24:35 -0500 Subject: {news} My write- in was NOT COUNTED in Manchester!! was yours?? Message-ID: <20081110182436.9086B1BF297@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com> My vote was not counted in Manchester!! If your wrote in- please let us know!! http://www.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?a=3179&q=392194 ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Mon Nov 10 17:40:10 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:40:10 -0500 Subject: {news} Burbank's report on his election race Message-ID: <20081110224010.670B7BE4078@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Burbank II" To: "'Tim McKee'" Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:46:28 -0500 Tim: I will be unable to make the 11-11-08 Portland meeting. Please enter the following into the record if that is appropriate re my 5th District US House run: Facts: My name is Harold Burbank, Canton, CT, and I was the Party's 5th District US House candidate. I began the campaign when Democrat Chris Murphy announced publicly 9-07 that he would not support Bushco impeachment for war crimes against the Constitution and humanity in the Iraq war. I was nominated, vetted and selected by a committee of 5th District Greens per party rules. Dave Bedell gave me the Party list of 5th District Greens in July, 2008 numbering 50 Greens, all of which I called in July, 2008, only 3 or 4 of which took any interest in my campaign, and only 2 of which donated and offered support. I obtained my CT Secretary of State ballot access petition in May, 2008 and collected about 4800 signatures, virtually alone, by the 8-6-08 due date (thanks to candidate Richard Duffee who helped me collect signatures for 2 days and Hector Lopez who worked for me in Danbury). By 8-26-08 I was noticed that I had made the ballot. In July and August, 2008 I was contacted by the Litchfield and New Britain chapters respectively of CT League of Women Voters and invited to debates in October, 2008, acts voided by the League board at Hamden by 9-16-08, on specious claims of lack of voter outreach, lack of campaign funds, and lack pf position papers. The board's hostile action caused Central CT State University, host of the New Britain debate, to bar the League from campus. I maintained a campaign website at the Green national website which got over 4800 hits. I produced a 28 minute campaign TV infomercial broadcast district-wide for about 6 weeks on Simsbury, Plainville, and Danbury public access cable TV. I was interviewed occasionally by regional papers, including the Danbury Newstimes, the Waterbury Republican American, the Litchfield Times, The Meriden Record Journal, The New Britain Herald and Hartford Courant, and on WAMC, WTIC, WNPR, WWUH and maybe 2 other radio stations, and CTN, CPTV and Cablevision television. I appeared in 1 all candidates debate with Murphy, Republican David Cappiello, and Independent Thomas Winn, sponsored by the Farmington Chamber of Commerce at Farmington High School and was well received (some say I won). I was invited to speak at events sponsored by CT United (religious activists for universal health care and immigration reform), and 3 other district human services groups, and Cheshire High School (200 students and faculty) and was very well received. I held a protest counter-debate at Litchfield next door to the League debate there, and was generously supported by a free appearance of Charle's Keil's Berkshire Brass Stompers and Friends (band), and volunteers Dorothea DiCecco, Janet Buonaiuto, Justine McCabe and John Battista, though only about 16 people attended, including no one from Cornwall which was close by and fully noticed of the event. I was endorsed by Ralph Nader, Dr. Bob Bowman (chair of Star Wars missile defense program), and Dr. Francis A. Boyle, and strongly supported by Dr. Daniel Ellsberg and Ramsey Clark. I was very kindly supported strongly by about 12 key volunteers, some of whom are Republicans and other non-Greens, who supplied the bulk of my funding, and considerable moral and other support. They were mostly from Litchfield County. I raised less than $2000 for the campaign and spent most of that on gas, photocopies of campaign handouts (I could not afford a printed leaftlet), a few signs for the Litchfield event and another appearance at Canton High School, and miscellaneous travel costs. I scored 2838 election votes, finishing 3rd of 4 candidates; but with just less than 1% of the vote needed for a 2010 ballot line. Comments: Greens must organize managers for the candidates. It is impossible to line up good, multiple speaking engagements, interviews, press releases - all absolutely critical to get required public exposure - without managers. As Ralph Nader commented to me, Greens will not be taken seriously even by sympathetic donors until such staff exist. Greens must notice candidates of new Party members before election day. Apparently 350 Greens were registered in the 5th District by 11-4-08, while only 50 were in 7-08. No one told me of the new members, which I would have called, and likely persuaded to hold speaking events and otherwise attract voters who would have given Greens 1% of the 5th District vote for a 2010 ballot line (we missed by about .26%). I found speaking in small and moderate sized groups to be very effective and critical for public awareness. I got great feedback from human services agencies and school staff as opposed to 5th district students who were not very enthused (this was not the case in other districts I noticed). Greens need a visible presence in Danbury, Waterbury, New Britain and Torrington to win this district. Greens need more money to do public mailing and brochure printing. I could have used much more help gathering signatures. This was very, very hard work, for which I sacrificed considerable work and family time. I invested hundreds of hours at about 4 Stop & Shop stores (this was the ONLY major CT retailer who supported this effort for me) and frankly the Green brand name was not well received by at least 40% of the people I solicited. They either did not know what Greens stood for or outright objected and refused to sign. I did a LOT of selling the brand for those 4800 signatures. I would have done better as an independent, based on what voters' said. Conclusions: I accepted this candidacy because of the war crimes committed by Bushco and the threat this poses to my children, the Constitution and the world.Phil Donohue said last week exit polls show only 10% of voters cared about the war(s) in the election, due to the economy. This was clearly the case in the 5th District, which is so wealthy and "removed" from the war(s) that almost no voters I spoke with cared about the wars (with notable exceptions); a very great disappointment, and why Murphy won in a landslide, despite being a war criminal (voted for war funding many times). Given the extremely poor support of Greens in the 5th District for me (Cornwall, an alleged Green haven, gave me only 10 votes), the hostile attitude of the CTLWV board, the media black out, and the extraordinary commitment it takes to do this work, I will not do it again unless there are major state party volunteer and funding supports in place. It was good to get the Green message out to the 5th as best I could, but given the meager results, there is obviously much organizing to do, with little expectation of success for a US House seat in the foreseeable future. I think I was a good candidate, but that clearly is not enough to even get noticed by the 2 major "industrial" parties or most of the public, who mostly did not know or care I was running, despite superior Green views on substance. Richard Duffee expressed some interest in running against Chris Dodd for US Senate. I recommend that the Party consider right away if it will take that race seriously and, as Richard suggested to me, in the next few months form some means of vetting candidates. I might be interested in running, but do not consider myself a strong candidate, where Ralph Ferrucci, Scott Deshefy and Steve Fournier got considerable 2008 support in their regions compared to me. Harold Burbank Attorney Harold H. Burbank, II 84 N. Mountain Rd. Canton, CT 06019 860.693.2687 email haroldburbank at comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: B BarryTo: 'Tim McKee' ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgCc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net ; haroldburbank at comcast.netSent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 11:22 PMSubject: RE: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Thanks for that thought, Tim. Mike and Vic will double check. It typically is not a problem, because Vic gets the keys for when the building is typically closed. Barbara Barry -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim McKee [mailto:timmckee at mail.com] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:42 AM To: B Barry; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net; haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Are 100% sure that the building with be open..it is verterns day ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Barry" To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net, haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:32:38 -0500 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 9-30-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee. C. Reports: 1. (10 minutes): GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney: write-in issues at polling places; results. 2. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 3. (10-15 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 4. (10-15 minutes): G.Scott Dehefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 5. (10-15 minutes): Ralph Ferrucci, endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line: overview of campaign. 6. (10-15 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; overview of campaign. 7. (10-15 minutes): Harold Burbank, Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District; overview of campaign. 8. (15-20 minutes): Discussion about the other CTGP candidates for public office and election results. 9. (5-10minutes): CTGP literature. 10. (5-10 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. 11. (2-5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. 12. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009. 13. (2-5 minutes, each): Chapter reports. 14. Date and place for December SCC meeting: Tuesday, 12-16-08 or 12-23-08 or 12-30-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 12-08: to be determined. 15. 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State University to a standing room only crowd of 200 and after wards met briefly with GP Co- Chair Cliff Thornton, Scott Deshefy, Congressional Candidate and Tim McKee, CCSU student and National Committee member. Rosa was very upbeat and gave a great speech to many students and staff. She spoke of how she wanted to help organize the GP more and maybe shape the message more both behind the scenes and in speeches and on campus, and community events. She still see the Greens as a mostly white, middle age and male group. One funny part to me was when a student asked why we emphasize the Presidential contest, and not concentrate on local races. We had 5 of 5 Congressional races going, and a lot of local races but some how I think she missed those race complety. One year after we WON local high profile races for town boards, in fact! I will be posting pics soon as well. 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URL: From rstuller at snet.net Mon Nov 10 18:48:18 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:48:18 -0500 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center In-Reply-To: <20081107043240.OLTU8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> References: <20081107043240.OLTU8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: I don't think I'll be able to make it. Brief report from New London chapter: Ken Hanson received 8.5% in the 39th district race. We are continuing to put our NLGP Town Committee in place, both to assist in outreach and to provide a continuous system for recruiting and supporting candidates in municipal elections. Ronna On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:32 PM, B Barry wrote: > Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland > Senior Center > Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT > 06480 > Facilitator: To Be Determined > > A. Preliminaries: > 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; > chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. > 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any > deletions or additions. > 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 9-30-08 > SCC meeting. > 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. > > B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee. > > C. Reports: > 1. (10 minutes): GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney: > write-in issues at polling places; results. > > 2. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co- > chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie > Pillsbury and > National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. > Michael DeRosa. > > 3. (10-15 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional > District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. > > 4. (10-15 minutes): G.Scott Deshefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional > District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. > > 5. (10-15 minutes): Ralph Ferrucci, endorsed candidate for the 3rd > Congressional District line: overview of campaign. > > 6. (10-15 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District > CTGP candidate; overview of campaign. > > 7. (10-15 minutes): Harold Burbank, Green Party of CT candidate for > 5th Congressional District; overview of campaign. > > 8. (15-20 minutes): Discussion about the other CTGP candidates for > public office and election results. > > 9. (5-10minutes): CTGP literature. > > 10. (5-10 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. > > 11. (2-5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. > > 12. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009. > > 13. (2-5 minutes, each): Chapter reports. > > 14. Date and place for December SCC meeting: Tuesday, 12-16-08 or > 12-23-08 or 12-30-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in > 12-08: to be determined. > > 15. 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COHEN The Hartford Courant November 7, 2008 Add Urania Petit's name to the list of people who made election history Tuesday. Petit, a social worker and Working Families Party candidate for registrar of voters in Hartford, outpolled her Republican counterpart by more than 200 votes. With that, city voters made Petit the first third-party candidate ever elected to a registrar's office in Connecticut, according to the secretary of the state. Hartford will soon have three registrars - a Democrat, a Republican and a Working Families. For Petit, it's all about participation. "My goal is not to register 20,000 for the Working Families," she said. "When I get into city hall, it's not even about Working Families. It's about registering people, educating people and trying to increase voter participation." State law says the state's two majority parties are guaranteed a registrar in each town. It also says that the candidates for registrar with the highest and second highest number of votes win the posts. On Tuesday, Democrat Olga Iris Vazquez won her party's position with 21,272 votes. Petit finished second with 2,541 votes, and Republican Salvatore Bramante finished third with 2,315 votes. That means all three won jobs. One of the unintended consequences of Petit's election is fiscal. Bramante said registrars now are paid $80,000 a year, their deputies get roughly $60,000 and assistants are paid about $40,000. Those salaries and benefits are all paid by the city. The adopted budget for the registrars' office this year - which didn't anticipate Vazquez's victory - is about $650,000. Last year, the office began with a spending plan of roughly $760,000 and, with cost overruns, wound up spending over $1 million. To those who say a third registrar costs too much money, Petit says the cost of low voter participation is far greater. "The reason people don't vote is because people don't know how to," said Petit, a native of St. Lucia who came to Hartford in 1989. "You need to teach people how to vote. "In order for people to become engaged in the process, we need to educate them about voting, and that's why I want to be registrar," she said. The Working Families Party gets much of its support from labor unions and backs issues that include living wages, access to health care, education, affordable housing and government transparency. The party has worked hard in Hartford recently. Two of the city's nine council members are from the Working Families Party, and one is the council's minority leader. On the registration side, though, their numbers are small. According to Bramante, the city has 36,140 registered Democrats, 2,138 Republicans, 11,398 unaffiliated voters and 78 voters that are classified as "other" - which includes Working Families voters. But for Jon Green, the party's executive director for the state, it's as much about the party as it is about voter participation. "She really enhances the city's ability to engage its own citizens in the political process," Green said of Petit. "And that's fundamentally a good thing." Copyright ? 2008, The Hartford Courant From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Nov 11 00:50:17 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:50:17 -0500 Subject: {news} Burbank's report on his election race Message-ID: Harold, thank you very much for this detailed report. There's one thing that I think can be clarified, as Richard also brought it up in a meeting in Stamford tonight. You had mentioned earlier a growth of 5th District Greens from 50 to 350 between July and November, and I wondered where you had gotten the list of 50 from, because I didn't think such fast growth was possible. In this report you explain that the names came from a list I gave you. But the list I gave you only included Greens in Fairfield County (Danbury area) and a few in New Milford, plus a handful of other Greens I knew lived in the 5th District. It did not include Meriden, New Britain, Waterbury, Torrington, or most of the rest of the 5th District. I apologize for the misunderstanding; I should have made this clearer and urged you to obtain the complete list. Now that CT has a centralized voter database, we should look into getting an updated list every year or two from the SOTS instead of contacting individual town registrars, and then we should make sure every candidate and every chapter organizer gets relevant parts of this list. In the past there was a significant fee charged by the SOTS, which was sometimes paid by generous individuals in the Green Party. We need to find out the SOTS policy regarding fees, and whether the major parties and candidates have to pay for the list. I've found that every town has a different policy in releasing its list: fees from $0-100; lists available in paper, PDF, or Excel format; all data included or just names and addresses. It would be better to get a uniform list from the SOTS and then divide it up as needed. The official voter list is not perfect; for example, some voters don't update their addresses when they move within a town, and as long as they keep voting, they remain on the voter list with their old address. Some GP chapters also keep lists of Green sympathizers who are not registered Green, which should be used to supplement the voter list. Also, candidates develop their own lists; for example, you have a list of supporters which I hope you will make use of if you run for Senate, or share with anyone else who runs for Senate. David Bedell ----- Original Message ----- Subject: {news} Burbank's report on his election race From: Tim McKee timmckee at mail.com Date: Mon Nov 10 14:40:10 PST 2008 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Burbank II" To: "'Tim McKee'" Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:46:28 -0500 Tim: I will be unable to make the 11-11-08 Portland meeting. Please enter the following into the record if that is appropriate re my 5th District US House run: Facts: My name is Harold Burbank, Canton, CT, and I was the Party's 5th District US House candidate. I began the campaign when Democrat Chris Murphy announced publicly 9-07 that he would not support Bushco impeachment for war crimes against the Constitution and humanity in the Iraq war. I was nominated, vetted and selected by a committee of 5th District Greens per party rules. Dave Bedell gave me the Party list of 5th District Greens in July, 2008 numbering 50 Greens, all of which I called in July, 2008, only 3 or 4 of which took any interest in my campaign, and only 2 of which donated and offered support. I obtained my CT Secretary of State ballot access petition in May, 2008 and collected about 4800 signatures, virtually alone, by the 8-6-08 due date (thanks to candidate Richard Duffee who helped me collect signatures for 2 days and Hector Lopez who worked for me in Danbury). By 8-26-08 I was noticed that I had made the ballot. In July and August, 2008 I was contacted by the Litchfield and New Britain chapters respectively of CT League of Women Voters and invited to debates in October, 2008, acts voided by the League board at Hamden by 9-16-08, on specious claims of lack of voter outreach, lack of campaign funds, and lack pf position papers. The board's hostile action caused Central CT State University, host of the New Britain debate, to bar the League from campus. I maintained a campaign website at the Green national website which got over 4800 hits. I produced a 28 minute campaign TV infomercial broadcast district-wide for about 6 weeks on Simsbury, Plainville, and Danbury public access cable TV. I was interviewed occasionally by regional papers, including the Danbury Newstimes, the Waterbury Republican American, the Litchfield Times, The Meriden Record Journal, The New Britain Herald and Hartford Courant, and on WAMC, WTIC, WNPR, WWUH and maybe 2 other radio stations, and CTN, CPTV and Cablevision television. I appeared in 1 all candidates debate with Murphy, Republican David Cappiello, and Independent Thomas Winn, sponsored by the Farmington Chamber of Commerce at Farmington High School and was well received (some say I won). I was invited to speak at events sponsored by CT United (religious activists for universal health care and immigration reform), and 3 other district human services groups, and Cheshire High School (200 students and faculty) and was very well received. I held a protest counter-debate at Litchfield next door to the League debate there, and was generously supported by a free appearance of Charle's Keil's Berkshire Brass Stompers and Friends (band), and volunteers Dorothea DiCecco, Janet Buonaiuto, Justine McCabe and John Battista, though only about 16 people attended, including no one from Cornwall which was close by and fully noticed of the event. I was endorsed by Ralph Nader, Dr. Bob Bowman (chair of Star Wars missile defense program), and Dr. Francis A. Boyle, and strongly supported by Dr. Daniel Ellsberg and Ramsey Clark. I was very kindly supported strongly by about 12 key volunteers, some of whom are Republicans and other non-Greens, who supplied the bulk of my funding, and considerable moral and other support. They were mostly from Litchfield County. I raised less than $2000 for the campaign and spent most of that on gas, photocopies of campaign handouts (I could not afford a printed leaftlet), a few signs for the Litchfield event and another appearance at Canton High School, and miscellaneous travel costs. I scored 2838 election votes, finishing 3rd of 4 candidates; but with just less than 1% of the vote needed for a 2010 ballot line. Comments: Greens must organize managers for the candidates. It is impossible to line up good, multiple speaking engagements, interviews, press releases - all absolutely critical to get required public exposure - without managers. As Ralph Nader commented to me, Greens will not be taken seriously even by sympathetic donors until such staff exist. Greens must notice candidates of new Party members before election day. Apparently 350 Greens were registered in the 5th District by 11-4-08, while only 50 were in 7-08. No one told me of the new members, which I would have called, and likely persuaded to hold speaking events and otherwise attract voters who would have given Greens 1% of the 5th District vote for a 2010 ballot line (we missed by about .26%). I found speaking in small and moderate sized groups to be very effective and critical for public awareness. I got great feedback from human services agencies and school staff as opposed to 5th district students who were not very enthused (this was not the case in other districts I noticed). Greens need a visible presence in Danbury, Waterbury, New Britain and Torrington to win this district. Greens need more money to do public mailing and brochure printing. I could have used much more help gathering signatures. This was very, very hard work, for which I sacrificed considerable work and family time. I invested hundreds of hours at about 4 Stop & Shop stores (this was the ONLY major CT retailer who supported this effort for me) and frankly the Green brand name was not well received by at least 40% of the people I solicited. They either did not know what Greens stood for or outright objected and refused to sign. I did a LOT of selling the brand for those 4800 signatures. I would have done better as an independent, based on what voters' said. Conclusions: I accepted this candidacy because of the war crimes committed by Bushco and the threat this poses to my children, the Constitution and the world.Phil Donohue said last week exit polls show only 10% of voters cared about the war(s) in the election, due to the economy. This was clearly the case in the 5th District, which is so wealthy and "removed" from the war(s) that almost no voters I spoke with cared about the wars (with notable exceptions); a very great disappointment, and why Murphy won in a landslide, despite being a war criminal (voted for war funding many times). Given the extremely poor support of Greens in the 5th District for me (Cornwall, an alleged Green haven, gave me only 10 votes), the hostile attitude of the CTLWV board, the media black out, and the extraordinary commitment it takes to do this work, I will not do it again unless there are major state party volunteer and funding supports in place. It was good to get the Green message out to the 5th as best I could, but given the meager results, there is obviously much organizing to do, with little expectation of success for a US House seat in the foreseeable future. I think I was a good candidate, but that clearly is not enough to even get noticed by the 2 major "industrial" parties or most of the public, who mostly did not know or care I was running, despite superior Green views on substance. Richard Duffee expressed some interest in running against Chris Dodd for US Senate. I recommend that the Party consider right away if it will take that race seriously and, as Richard suggested to me, in the next few months form some means of vetting candidates. I might be interested in running, but do not consider myself a strong candidate, where Ralph Ferrucci, Scott Deshefy and Steve Fournier got considerable 2008 support in their regions compared to me. Harold Burbank Attorney Harold H. Burbank, II 84 N. Mountain Rd. Canton, CT 06019 860.693.2687 email haroldburbank at comcast.net From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Nov 11 01:05:57 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:05:57 -0500 Subject: {news} My write- in was NOT COUNTED in Manchester!! was yours?? Message-ID: Many places did a lousy job of handling write-in procedures and counting votes. Stamford failed to count a number of write-in votes that we know were cast, and there was no consistent policy about posting the list of write-in candidates. Some polling places posted a list, some did not, and even when posted, the lists did not include all the candidates. (The lists I saw included all the write-in Presidential candidates, but not the Congressional, and not always the state legislature candidates.) David Bedell From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Nov 11 01:19:19 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:19:19 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: CTVotersCount.org - Newsletter - Join the November Observation Message-ID: I would urge people to volunteer as Post-Election Audit Observers. See below. David Bedell ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:52 PM Subject: CTVotersCount.org - Newsletter - Join the November Observation Dear CTVotersCount 2009 Petition Signer, .. ******************************************* * Sign-Up Now for the November Observation * Is Democracy Worth 1 day? ******************************************* After You Vote: Make Sure Your Vote Counts Become a Post-Election Audit Observer We are planning our biggest audit observation yet, for the Nov Presidential Election. It is likely that close to fifty towns will be counting three races across thousands of ballots. 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Our comments, The Principles, and news coverage at: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=679 ************************************* * Recent News from CTVotersCount.org ************************************* Mixed national ratings for Connecticut: Presidential Post-Audit Map: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=885 State Election Web Sites: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=847 Is America Ready to Vote: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=833 Problems from around the U.S. starting early: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=875 Memory Card Problems Continue: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=798 Lessons: Hand Counts and Voter Fraud: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=766 The Constitutional Question Will Not Be Audited: http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=699 and many, many more. Coming up later this week: "eTRICK or reTREAT: The Ghosts of Halloween Future" From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Nov 11 13:54:27 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:54:27 +0000 Subject: {news} Todd Vachon's letter on uncounted write-in votes Message-ID: I could not have expressed this better. http://vachonforcongress.blogspot.com/2008/11/every-vote-must-count.html Every Vote Must Count. Letter to the Editor: Unbeknown to most voters, last week?s election revealed many flaws with the statewide write-in ballot system. While the immediate response from most voters is that ?the write in candidate isn?t going to change the outcome of the election,? further consideration would lead one to be more concerned. Whether one chose to vote for a write-in or a major party candidate does not change the principal of ?one person, one vote.? My name is Todd Vachon, and I was registered with The Secretary of State?s office as an official ?write-in? candidate for U.S. Congress in District 2 last week. After much hard work by a handful of dedicated volunteers, we were unable to gather the necessary number of ?valid? signatures to appear on the Connecticut ballot. My campaign committee convened after the August 6th petition deadline and voted to continue forward with a write-in campaign. We knew quite well that a write in candidate realistically had no chance of winning, but we proceeded in order to provide our closest supporters with the option of voting for the candidate they really wanted to vote for. November 4th came and everyone went to the polls to register their vote for what they thought was best. While the majority of voters selected either the Democratic or Republican Party candidate, many others chose different candidates which they believed better represented them. Whether they voted for the Green, Libertarian, Socialist or Constitution Party or for an unaffiliated independent candidate, they went to the polls and cast their vote assuming that it would be counted. What many of these folks discovered in the days following the election was that their vote was in fact not counted. My campaign began receiving emails almost immediately from over a dozen folks who said they had written in my name on the ballot, but their town?s vote tally showed ?zero? votes for the write-in candidate. Dealing with such a small number of votes made it quite easy to determine if one?s vote was actually counted. This phenomena effected my own parents, my website designer, many personal friends and several campaign volunteers in Eastern Connecticut. These are people who went out of their way on election day to write in the name of their candidate on the ballot and were not even rewarded with the pleasure of having their vote acknowledged. If you too chose to vote for a write in candidate last week, I strongly urge you to check the official vote count for your home town. This information is available at the Secretary of State?s office and can be viewed at her website: http://www.sots.ct.gov . If you feel that you may have been disenfranchised please inform the Elections Division at the Secretary of State?s office (lead@ po.state.ct.us) and also consider contacting your local town clerk as well. Even if you did not write in a candidate, please consider the weight of this voter?s rights issue and contact the Secretary of State on behalf of fellow voting citizens. While it has not been determined whether this error is a result of the voting process or the counting process, it is an error that must be addressed before the next election cycle. Every vote must count. Posted by Todd Vachon for Congress, CT District 2 at 10:49 PM _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 From smderosa at cox.net Tue Nov 11 17:10:04 2008 From: smderosa at cox.net (Mike DeRosa) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:10:04 -0500 Subject: {news} FW: TONIGHT'S SCC MEETING PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO LA BOCA RESTAURANT, 520 MAIN ST. MIDDLETOWN, CT Message-ID: <2A914EA8DF3B427681CF3A9324E7F66D@OwnerPC> Greens; Because of conditions beyond our control tonight's SCC meeting place has been changed to La Boca Restaurant, 520 Main St in Middletown, CT. I tried to contact as many people as many people as I could by phone. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We will have the blue room to ourselves. There is no minimum or purchase required. See Below: La Boca Restaurant www.labocaonline.com 520 Main St Middletown, CT 06457 (860) 347-4777 Sincerely, Mike DeRosa _____ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of B Barry Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 11:22 PM To: 'Tim McKee'; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net; haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: RE: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting atPortland Senior Center Thanks for that thought, Tim. Mike and Vic will double check. It typically is not a problem, because Vic gets the keys for when the building is typically closed. Barbara Barry _____ From: Tim McKee [mailto:timmckee at mail.com] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:42 AM To: B Barry; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net; haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Are 100% sure that the building with be open..it is verterns day ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Barry" To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Cc: ralphferrucci at sbcglobal.net, haroldburbank at comcast.net Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:32:38 -0500 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Proposed agenda for the 7PM 11-11-08 SCC CTGP meeting at Portland Senior Center Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 9-30-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee. C. Reports: 1. (10 minutes): GPUS Presidential Candidate: Cynthia McKinney: write-in issues at polling places; results. 2. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Steve Fournier, Richard Duffee and S. Michael DeRosa. 3. (10-15 minutes): Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 4. (10-15 minutes): G.Scott Dehefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: overview of campaign. 5. (10-15 minutes): Ralph Ferrucci, endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line: overview of campaign. 6. (10-15 minutes): Richard Duffee, 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; overview of campaign. 7. (10-15 minutes): Harold Burbank, Green Party of CT candidate for 5th Congressional District; overview of campaign. 8. (15-20 minutes): Discussion about the other CTGP candidates for public office and election results. 9. (5-10minutes): CTGP literature. 10. (5-10 minutes): Fundraising for CTGP. 11. (2-5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit update. 12. (5-10 minutes): CTGP potential goals for 2009. 13. (2-5 minutes, each): Chapter reports. 14. Date and place for December SCC meeting: Tuesday, 12-16-08 or 12-23-08 or 12-30-08. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 12-08: to be determined. 15. 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The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. 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Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1778 - Release Date: 11/9/2008 2:14 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 17860 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00016.txt URL: From rstuller at snet.net Tue Nov 11 19:37:40 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:37:40 -0500 Subject: {news} My write- in was NOT COUNTED in Manchester!! was yours?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3B26E8E9-59D3-4F12-B4B2-4B5BD76661C2@snet.net> What is our next step? So far, in New London, 6 people have told me they wrote in McKinney (including one who voted via absentee ballot), while the town's tally lists zero. One person in Norwich said he'd been told by the head moderator that write-ins would not be counted since there was no official list. (???) Yet I received the Presidential list in the mail! (Not sure why, though... perhaps because I was listed as a McKinney elector?) Well, I guess one of the reasons we sought official write-in status for McKinney was to test the system... (In many places, it clearly failed, both in terms of consistent posting and consistent counting.) Ronna On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:05 AM, David Bedell wrote: > Many places did a lousy job of handling write-in procedures and > counting > votes. Stamford failed to count a number of write-in votes that we > know > were cast, and there was no consistent policy about posting the list > of > write-in candidates. Some polling places posted a list, some did > not, and > even when posted, the lists did not include all the candidates. (The > lists I > saw included all the write-in Presidential candidates, but not the > Congressional, and not always the state legislature candidates.) > > David Bedell From timmckee at mail.com Wed Nov 12 08:40:49 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:40:49 -0500 Subject: {news} CALL YOUT TOWN VOTER REGISTER- ASK FOR NUMBERS Message-ID: <20081112134049.280A91BF2A3@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com> PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL TOWN AND ASK FOR NUMBER FOR THE GREENS AND LIBERTARIAN WRITE INS TODAY PLEASE EMAIL US WITH WHAT YOU HAVE- PRESS RELEASE LATER TO DAY TIM MCKEE 860-778-1304 CELL ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! 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Richard Carroll elected to Arkansas statehouse; new Green records set in congressional races; third Green mayor elected in California ? Running tally of Green election victories: http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.html Green candidate news: http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php Green Party elections database: http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/index.php WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party's 2008 candidates for the US House doubled the number of votes they received collectively from the number received in 2006, while over one million US voters voted for at least one Green candidate in the 2008 election. The total number of votes for Green US House candidates (568,791 so far; compared to 252,550 in 2006) will rise further after the December 6 postponed election in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Green candidate Malik Rahim is running in District 2 (http://www.votemalik.com) for a seat currently held by William Jefferson, who is under federal indictment. The Green Party is still awaiting final vote counts in some races around the US. A new record was set for a Green candidate running for the US House, when Deb McFarland finished second in an Arkansas District 2 race with 64,622 votes or 23.33%. Rebekah Kennedy apparently set a new percentage record for a Green running for the US Senate, with 202,016 votes or 20.59% (results not official) in her Arkansas race. Along with Richard Carroll's state legislature victory (see below), Arkansas Greens showed the most dramatic electoral growth of any state Green Party (http://www.arkgreens.org). The Illinois Green Party ran 54 candidates, the most of any state Green Party in 2008 (http://www.ilgp.org). 2008 is the first year in which the West Virginia Mountain Party (http://www.mtparty.org) competed in elections as an affiliate of the Green Party of the United States, with Jesse Johnson's run for Governor (http://www.jesse4wvgov.org). Mr. Johnson's 4.5% is the highest percentage for an alternative party candidate for Governor of West Virginia since 1912, when the Socialist Party polled 5.6% (http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/11/07/west-virginia-green-gubernatorial-showing-the-best-for-a-minor-party-since-1912/). Green Party leaders thanked and congratulated all 245 Green candidates who ran for public office in the November 4 general election, including the party's presidential ticket, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=137). Some significant Green victories on Election Day, November 4, 2008: ? Richard Carroll was elected to the Arkansas State Legislature, representing District 39 (http://www.newmenu.org/richardcarroll). ? Bruce Delgado was elected Mayor of Marina City, Monterey County, California (pop. 25,000) (http://www.delgado4mayor.org). Mr. Delgado joins California Green mayors Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond and Craig Litwin of Sebastopol. The Green Party of California announced at least five victories statewide in 2008 (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=135). ? Ross Mirkarimi was reelected to his District 5 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California, with 77% of the vote. This is the seat that was occupied in 1978 by Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. ? Art Goodtimes was reelected to his San Miguel County Commissioner seat in Colorado (District 3). ? Cara Jennings was reelected as Lake Worth Commissioner, Palm Beach, Florida. ? James Nicita was elected Oregon City Commissioner (Position 3) in Clackamas County, Oregon ? Michael Beilstein was reelected to the Corvallis City Council (Ward 5) in Oregon. ? The District of Columbia had the greatest number of Green victories on November 4, with seven DC Statehood Green Party candidates elected to Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats: Philip Blair, Jr, Single Member District 5A10 Dave Bosserman (incumbent), SMD 1D05 Chris Otten, SMD 1C02 Nancy Shia (incumbent), SMD 1C06 Carolyn Steptoe, SMD 5A07 Rick Tingling-Clemmons (incumbent), SMD 7D05 Bryan Weaver (incumbent), SMD 1C03 MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections ? 2008 Green candidates to watch http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://votetruth08.com http://www.rosaclemente.com ~ END ~ _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Nov 12 11:11:31 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:11:31 -0500 Subject: {news} (NEWS RELEASE) CT GREENS FILE COMPLAINT -WRITE IN VOTES NOT COUNTED Message-ID: <20081112161134.2BFAE11581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT News Release- November 12, 2008- For Immediate Release CONTACT: Tim McKee, CT Green Party spokesperson and National Committee member, cell (860)778-1304 (best) or (860)643-2282, timmckee at mail.com Mike DeRosa, State Co-Chair, (860)956-8170 or (860)919-4042 (cell) Scott Deshefy, Candidate for 2nd District Congress, (860)642-7066 CT GREEN PARTY TO FILE COMPLAINT THAT WRITE IN VOTES WERE NOT COUNTED IN STATE ELECTION VOTERS TOLD WRITE IN DIDN'T COUNT- COUNT OMITTED IN SOME TOWNS Green Party of Connecticut officials will file a complaint with local and state election boards that REGISTERED WRITE IN votes were not counted in all towns across the state as required by state law, it was announced today. This decision was reached after state Greens checked their own town votes totals showing no registered write in votes for the Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney and after receiving numerous complaints that town polling places had no list of registered write in lists, were reluctant to show any list, and some local voters were told their write in votes would not count.. Tim McKee, a Green Party spokes person said, ?We gave the election officials one week to show us the numbers BUT my town of Manchester shows I did not write in McKinney for President, and State Co- Chair Mike De Rosa did not write in McKinney in Wethersfield accounting to the Sectary of the State?s web site.? McKee added ?Green?s had about 25,000 votes for our 5 CT Congressional candidates, but only 58 write in for President? In 2004, we had 9524 for David Cobb for President, so the numbers do not add up to us.? McKee pointed to New Haven and Windam, as examples were no votes were counted for the Green Party for President, but Greens are elected as town alderman and First Select person and Green Congressional candidates had good numbers this year. ?Our position is that all votes should be counted! If local PARTISAN Democrat or Republicans voter registrars do not count Registered Write In candidates according to state law, then they should be removed from office!? McKee explained. #end of release# ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Nov 12 11:24:57 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:24:57 -0500 Subject: {news} CALL YOUT TOWN VOTER REGISTER- ASK FOR NUMBERS Message-ID: <20081112162457.D903A4780AA@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> MANCHESTER SUDDENLY HAS AT LEAST 3 MCKINNEY VOTES AFTER I CALL THE CLERK AND HE CHECKED,, GAVE HIM THE POLLING PLACE AND NOW,, SUPRISE,, FROM 0 TO AT LEAST 3..MMMMM TIM MCKEE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim McKee" To: "CT Greens News" Subject: {news} CALL YOUT TOWN VOTER REGISTER- ASK FOR NUMBERS Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:40:49 -0500 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL TOWN AND ASK FOR NUMBER FOR THE GREENS AND LIBERTARIAN WRITE INS TODAY PLEASE EMAIL US WITH WHAT YOU HAVE- PRESS RELEASE LATER TO DAY TIM MCKEE 860-778-1304 CELL ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com! To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. 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URL: From timmckee at mail.com Wed Nov 12 11:29:04 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:29:04 -0500 Subject: {news} Green platform approach: New Report on Energy Self-Reliant States] Message-ID: <20081112162905.24C00478037@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> check out the nutmeg state on this site!! http://www.newrules.org/de/energyselfreliantstates.pdf >From the executive summary: "The data in this report, while preliminary, suggest that at least half of the fifty states could meet all their internal energy needs from renewable energy generated inside their borders, and the vast majority could meet a significant percentage. And these estimates may well be conservative. A national renewable energy policy should reflect the unique distribution of these energy sources. Wind and solar and, to a lesser extent, biomass, can be found in abundance in virtually all parts of the country. A federal policy that focuses on harnessing local renewable resources for local markets could dramatically expand the number of communities and states economically benefiting from the use of renewable fuels while minimizing the transportation-related environmental impact of moving energy products long distances. "...significant variations in renewable energy among states exist; in most cases, when transmission or transportation costs are taken into account, the net cost variations are quite modest. Homegrown energy is almost always cheaper than imports, especially when you factor in social, environmental and economic benefits..." ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! 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Jean -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Thornton Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:08 AM To: ctgp-news Subject: {news} Hawaii County latest community to make marijuana 'lowestpriority, ' but police say no changes Every thing that was present in pre world war II Germany exist within this country today. Only Obama is different, I hope that he has not been bought and sold. How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. ~Adolf Hitler Hawaii County latest community to make marijuana 'lowest priority,' but police say no changes By Associated Press 7:09 AM EST, November 8, 2008 http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-hawaii-marijuana,0,1489469.st ory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd_3HowvKlA HILO, Hawaii (AP) _ Hawaii County police and federal authorities say they will continue enforcing marijuana laws on the Big Island despite the passage of a ballot initiative making it the lowest priority for law enforcement. Voters approved the measure 34,957 to 25,464 in Tuesday's election. It was one of several victories for advocates of less punitive marijuana penalties. Massachusetts became the 13th state to decriminalize the herb; Michigan became the 13th state to legalize medical marijuana, and Fayetteville, Ark., also passed a resolution making marijuana the college town's lowest law enforcement priority. Other cities that have previously passed "lowest priority" initiatives in recent years include Denver, Seattle and Eureka Springs, Ark., as well as the California cities of Santa Barbara , Santa Monica and Oakland . In San Francisco and West Hollywood , similar measures were passed by elected officials. But Hawaii County Police Chief Lawrence Mahuna said the measure is a resolution, not a law, and added, "there will be no change how we prioritize the enforcement of marijuana. The resolution does not invalidate federal law. It doesn't legalize marijuana. It's still a Schedule 1 controlled substance, he said. "We will continue in our efforts to reduce the availability of illegal marijuana," he said. County Corporation Counsel Lincoln Ashida disagreed with Mahuna's assertion that the approved measure isn't a law. The County Charter states an initiative approved by voters becomes a county ordinance, or law. Ashida said that under the new law, the County Council can't accept funds for marijuana eradication programs, and the county clerk must send an annual letter to state and federal elected officials requesting that "government remove criminal penalties for the cultivation, possession and use of cannabis for adult personal use." Meanwhile, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said passage of the initiative won't change its approach to the enforcement of federal law. "In a nutshell, we're going to continue to enforce the drug laws, which includes marijuana," said Tony Williams , DEA assistant special agent in charge, speaking from Honolulu. He said the focus will remain on those who cultivate marijuana and distribute narcotics. The measure was pushed by the group Project Peaceful Sky, whose director, Adam Lehmann, said it doesn't decriminalize marijuana. "It's only for adult personal use on private property," he said. Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney Jay Kimura called the initiative unenforceable, but said he would consult with the state attorney general to see what could be done to implement it. ___ Information from: Hawaii Tribune-Herald, http://www.hilohawaiitribune.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.desmet at att.net Wed Nov 12 22:29:11 2008 From: j.desmet at att.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:29:11 -0500 Subject: {news} NO one in New Haven or Windam wrote in McKinney?? In-Reply-To: <681132.76371.qm@web44811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <017601c94540$017d6b70$5444c14c@jean1oa1rgr0ov> We were told there were no registered candidates. I had to vote for Nader, tho I definitely wanted to vote for McKinney. Very bad. Will take this up with the registrars. Jean -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Tim McKee Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 1:34 PM To: CT Greens News Subject: {news} NO one in New Haven or Windam wrote in McKinney?? Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org http://www.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?a=3179&q=392194 *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the?Green Party of CT. 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To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From rstuller at snet.net Wed Nov 12 23:57:50 2008 From: rstuller at snet.net (Ronna Stuller) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:57:50 -0500 Subject: [Bulk] RE: {news} NO one in New Haven or Windam wrote in McKinney?? In-Reply-To: <017601c94540$017d6b70$5444c14c@jean1oa1rgr0ov> References: <017601c94540$017d6b70$5444c14c@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Message-ID: This is getting weirder and weirder. As I've said before, I received (on Election Day) a letter from the SOTS listing the registered write- in Presidential candidates. Have no idea why they sent it to me..... The letter also stated that the list could not be posted but would be made available - without comment - upon request. (If anyone thinks a copy of the letter would be helpful, I can scan it...) Ronna On Nov 12, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Jean de Smet wrote: > We were told there were no registered candidates. I had to vote for > Nader, > tho I definitely wanted to vote for McKinney. > > Very bad. Will take this up with the registrars. > > Jean From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Nov 13 01:00:40 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:00:40 -0500 Subject: {news} New Haven Advocate: How Green Was My Ballot? Message-ID: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10559 How Green Was My Ballot? New Haven almost elects a third-party registrar and Mickey Mouse joins the rat race. Wednesday, November 12, 2008 By Advocate Staff New Haven almost elects third-party registrar. Amazingly, third-party lightning nearly struck twice on Election Day in Connecticut. While state laws assure that the two major parties need never worry about losing a registrar of voters gig, if a third party polls higher than either of them, they can get a registrar too. That's what Working Families Party candidate Urania Pettit managed in Hartford. Green Party candidate Charlie Pillsbury nearly turned the same trick in New Haven, where he was less than 500 votes shy of overtaking the Republican registrar, Rae Tramontano. Pillsbury might well have nabbed those votes if he'd campaigned aggressively but the longtime local Green Party standard-bearer was ambivalent about actually winning. The original Green put up for the position was Marianne Davis. She withdrew last month when it was discovered that federal funding regarding her job as an air quality control monitor would complicate her candidacy. With no time to find a replacement and no desire to lose a line on the ballot, Pillsbury substituted himself. The switch flummoxed the New Haven Register, which still had Davis' name on the sample pre-election ballot they ran prior to Election Day. The change-up also required the city of New Haven to reprint 40,000 ballots. "We didn't work very hard for this," Pillsbury admits. "We were just saving the slot." Nevertheless, the 2,907 votes he got - 8 percent of the total - were not much less than the 9.5 percent Tramontano got, more than the number it took Urbania Petit to gain the same post in Hartford and 400 votes more than New Haven's first Green candidate for registrar, the more driven-to-win Calvin Nicholson, received in 2004. A victory "would have been very challenging," Pillsbury says, since he would have tried to work it around his duties as director of Community Mediation Services on Elm Street. Still, he insists "I would have done the job. It's a wonderful position from which you can build a Green Party, since you can't be accused of being a spoiler. In a year when the city is laying off people, it would have been awkward, though. Perhaps I would have bargained a later start date," he graciously speculates, so as not to affect the budget as drastically. "Now we don't have to worry about that." Having come so close, unlike, for instance, Green congressional candidate Ralph Ferrucci's anemic challenge to Rosa DeLauro, count on the Greens to have another go at becoming Registrar #3 in 2012. -Christopher Arnott Rodent Race Connecticut voters overwhelmingly filled the bubble for President-elect Barack Obama on Nov. 4, but there were also votes cast for other, lesser-known candidates (and non-candidates) for President of the United States. Some voters, writing in ballots for Mickey Mouse, seemingly wanted to make history by electing the first rodent to high office. The towns of West Hartford, Waterbury and New Haven have confirmed write-in votes for the cartoon character. In Waterbury, the registrar's office confirmed that Minnie Mouse was on the vice presidential ticket on at least one ballot. Votes were also cast for Donald Duck, George Costanza and Jesus Christ in West Hartford and some guy named "Chris" in New Haven. There isn't a paper trail, though, because the votes weren't officially counted. In Connecticut, "For candidates to be officially recorded they must be registered as write-in candidates," says the Town Clerk's office of Hartford. That also goes for real, serious candidates, such as Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul and Bob Barr, who got write-in votes in New Haven but were not allowed to be officially counted. Beside the major party candidates - Sen. John McCain, Obama and independent Ralph Nader - only four other candidates had the special write-in status privilege. Conservative Chuck Baldwin, Green Party's Cynthia McKinney and socialists Roger Calero and Brian Moore received a combined 390 votes. One write-in ballot seemed to straddle both the real and fictitious. A Naugatuck resident voted for someone called "Darth Nader." -Justin Kloczko From mrdweezel at yahoo.com Thu Nov 13 07:05:14 2008 From: mrdweezel at yahoo.com (MaryAnne Davis) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:05:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} NO one in New Haven wrote in McKinney?? YES WE DID In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <215361.96693.qm@web65413.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> I wrote in McKinney/Clemente and another few I'm sure did as well, maybe a lot. Are there any towns in CT that counted them? What has happened in the other states that were write-in status? MaryAnne --- Ronna Stuller wrote: > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - > http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > This is getting weirder and weirder. As I've said before, I received (on Election Day) a letter from the SOTS listing the registered write- in Presidential candidates. Have no idea why they sent it to me..... The letter also stated that the list could not be posted but would be made available - without comment - upon request. > (If anyone thinks a copy of the letter would be helpful, I can scan it...) > > Ronna > > > > On Nov 12, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Jean de Smet wrote: > > > We were told there were no registered candidates. > I had to vote for Nader, tho I definitely wanted to vote for McKinney. > > > > Very bad. Will take this up with the registrars. > > > > Jean > From timmckee at mail.com Thu Nov 13 08:53:28 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:53:28 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Arkansas Election close Message-ID: <20081113135328.DBB504780AA@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: jelendall at comcast.net To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] Arkansas Election close Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:49:33 +0000 More than a week after the election, Elizabeth McCoy, Green Party candidate for Chicot County Assessor trails the Democrat by one vote. Ballots from three precincts may be missing. The County Clerk refuses to open the one missing absentee ballot that has arrived, opting rather to order 8000 new ballots for a runoff. The Chicot County Election Commission will be meeting at 9 AM Thursday to decide on what action to take: declaring a winner, holding a runoff election, or doing a recount, and/or charging the Arkansas Green Party $1100 for the recount. -- Jim Lendall 501-562-0011 _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Sat Nov 15 00:26:48 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:26:48 -0500 Subject: FW: {news} GP RELEASE Green Party racks up Election Day 2008 victories, new percentage records Message-ID: <20081115052701.WFFD3771.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> FYI Barbara Barry, Secretary of CTGP _____ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Tim McKee Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:43 AM To: CT Greens News; ctgp-candidates at yahoogroups.com; CTGP-elections at yahoogroups.com Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Green Party racks up Election Day 2008 victories, new percentage records GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Brent McMillan, National Political Director, 202-319-7191, brent at gp.org Green Party racks up Election Day 2008 victories, new percentage records ? Richard Carroll elected to Arkansas statehouse; new Green records set in congressional races; third Green mayor elected in California ? Running tally of Green election victories: http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.html Green candidate news: http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php Green Party elections database: http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/index.php WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party's 2008 candidates for the US House doubled the number of votes they received collectively from the number received in 2006, while over one million US voters voted for at least one Green candidate in the 2008 election. The total number of votes for Green US House candidates (568,791 so far; compared to 252,550 in 2006) will rise further after the December 6 postponed election in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Green candidate Malik Rahim is running in District 2 (http://www.votemalik.com) for a seat currently held by William Jefferson, who is under federal indictment. The Green Party is still awaiting final vote counts in some races around the US. A new record was set for a Green candidate running for the US House, when Deb McFarland finished second in an Arkansas District 2 race with 64,622 votes or 23.33%. Rebekah Kennedy apparently set a new percentage record for a Green running for the US Senate, with 202,016 votes or 20.59% (results not official) in her Arkansas race. Along with Richard Carroll's state legislature victory (see below), Arkansas Greens showed the most dramatic electoral growth of any state Green Party (http://www.arkgreens.org). The Illinois Green Party ran 54 candidates, the most of any state Green Party in 2008 (http://www.ilgp.org). 2008 is the first year in which the West Virginia Mountain Party (http://www.mtparty.org) competed in elections as an affiliate of the Green Party of the United States, with Jesse Johnson's run for Governor (http://www.jesse4wvgov.org). Mr. Johnson's 4.5% is the highest percentage for an alternative party candidate for Governor of West Virginia since 1912, when the Socialist Party polled 5.6% (http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/11/07/west-virginia-green-gubernatorial-s howing-the-best-for-a-minor-party-since-1912/). Green Party leaders thanked and congratulated all 245 Green candidates who ran for public office in the November 4 general election, including the party's presidential ticket, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=137). Some significant Green victories on Election Day, November 4, 2008: ? Richard Carroll was elected to the Arkansas State Legislature, representing District 39 (http://www.newmenu.org/richardcarroll). ? Bruce Delgado was elected Mayor of Marina City, Monterey County, California (pop. 25,000) (http://www.delgado4mayor.org). Mr. Delgado joins California Green mayors Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond and Craig Litwin of Sebastopol. The Green Party of California announced at least five victories statewide in 2008 (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=135). ? Ross Mirkarimi was reelected to his District 5 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California, with 77% of the vote. This is the seat that was occupied in 1978 by Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. ? Art Goodtimes was reelected to his San Miguel County Commissioner seat in Colorado (District 3). ? Cara Jennings was reelected as Lake Worth Commissioner, Palm Beach, Florida. ? James Nicita was elected Oregon City Commissioner (Position 3) in Clackamas County, Oregon ? Michael Beilstein was reelected to the Corvallis City Council (Ward 5) in Oregon. ? The District of Columbia had the greatest number of Green victories on November 4, with seven DC Statehood Green Party candidates elected to Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats: Philip Blair, Jr, Single Member District 5A10 Dave Bosserman (incumbent), SMD 1D05 Chris Otten, SMD 1C02 Nancy Shia (incumbent), SMD 1C06 Carolyn Steptoe, SMD 5A07 Rick Tingling-Clemmons (incumbent), SMD 7D05 Bryan Weaver (incumbent), SMD 1C03 MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections ? 2008 Green candidates to watch http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://votetruth08.com http://www.rosaclemente.com ~ END ~ _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_ 112008 _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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The Green Party is now established as the third largest party in our Parliament. We have increased our proportion of the party vote from 5.3% to 6.4% before special votes are counted. We now have eight Greens in Parliament, including two new Green MPs Kevin Hague and Catherine Delahunty. We hope that the special votes will bring in Kennedy Graham as the ninth Green MP. We ran our best campaign ever. Based on the polls leading into the election we all hoped to do better than 6.4%. But given that there was a strong mood to change the government, and that the Greens were associated with that government in the public mind, it was a strong result. In fact we were the only party associated with the Labour-led government to increase our party vote. We would prefer to be part of an incoming Green-Labour government, but we also celebrate the fact that we live in a democracy and especially one with a proportional system, so we accept the election result and congratulate National on the outcome. The Green MPs will seek to engage constructively with the new Parliament and the new Government as we always do. However, we will also speak out strongly if the incoming government moves to take our country in the wrong direction on social and environmental policy. The Green Party hasn?t found itself in opposition since the 1996 election when we were still inside the Alliance. We are strongly committed to ensuring that there is a strong Green voice in Parliament. Person for person we have the strongest team of MPs and we are very confident that green ideas and the green vision of sustainability, justice, fairness and peace will be heard loud and clear over the next three years. The world faces a challenging future - on top of the financial crisis we have an energy crisis and a climate change crisis. We need a Green ?New Deal? to address these triple crises - a package of infrastructure investment similar to that pursued by Franklin D Roosevelt in the United States in the 1930s, but addressing the great sustainability issues facing our planet and our species. There is reason to be hopeful that the world will address these crises with the election of Barack Obama. While we don?t know exactly what Barack Obama?s presidency will look like, it is certainly a much more hopeful future than that provided by the US Republican Party. In Aotearoa New Zealand the Greens will continue to put forward a positive vision of sustainability with fairness regardless of the attitude of the government of the day. Ideas do matter, and we will seek influence the direction of the government and our country by promoting green ideas. Once again thank you for your contribution to the Green campaign, whatever form that contribution took. The Greens are a flaxroots movement that relies on its grassroots members and supporters for sustenance. We could not have run this campaign without your support. We hope you have a great summer and get a chance to enjoy the natural environment that makes Aotearoa New Zealand such a fantastic place to live. Best Wishes Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel Norman Green Party Co-Leaders ********************************************** > _______________________________________________ > usgp-int mailing list > usgp-int at gp-us.org From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Nov 17 21:29:17 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:29:17 -0500 Subject: {news} USGP-INT German Greens elect son of Turkish immigrants as new partyco-leader Message-ID: <040501c94925$75218b40$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> FYI, Justine http://www.oezdemir.de/ http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/rgA1O8S1LGK/German+Greens+Party+Convention/-4TEr0u40tu/Cem+Oezdemirhttp://www.gruene.de/cms/default/dok/257/257998.danke.htmhttp://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3796158,00.html 15.11.2008 Greens Elect Oezdemir as Co-Leader in Historic Vote Germany's Green Party on Saturday elected Cem Oezdemir as one of its co-leaders, the first time one of Germany's major parties has elevated a child of Turkish immigrants to such a high position. Oezdemir received 79.2 per cent of the vote at a party congress. He will co-lead the party with incumbent Claudia Roth, who was re- elected with 82.7 per cent of the vote. The Greens traditionally have two leaders, one male, and one female. Oezdemir replaces Reinhard Buetikofer, who opted to stop down from his leadership position after six years. Oezdemir, 42, is the son of Turkish immigrants and was raised in southern Germany. He will be the first ethnic Turk to lead one of Germany's major political parties. His election is seen by some as a major turning point for the country. Although Turks represent a strong minority in Germany, large portions of their populations are marginalized from mainstream German society. Many second-generation Turks complain about the difficulty of obtaining German citizenship, even though they have spent their entire lives in Germany. Oezdemir eventually makes it to party top table Oezdemir is currently a member of the European Parliament and a former member of the German parliament, the Bundestag, where he held a seat from 1994 to 2002. Before that, he was in the state parliament of Baden-Wurttemberg. However, even though his move into the party's leadership has long been forecast, that is not to say there haven't been stumbling blocks. In October, the Greens in his home state of Baden Wurttemberg rebuffed his efforts to gain a slot on the party's candidate list for national elections, essentially blocking him from regaining a seat in the German parliament. Roth and other prominent party members already hold Bundestag seats. He is considered to be in the left-wing of a party that is already well to Germany's left. But commentators have also found him to be pragmatic. His political focus has included questions of German- Turkish relations, migration policy, naturalization policy and German foreign relations. During the party congress, members also reiterated the support for environmentally-friendly energy policies and warned that the world cannot overcome the financial crisis without also focusing on the environment. The Greens have been in opposition since 2005 when voters ousted their coalition with the left-of centre Social Democrats in favor of an alliance led by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative ChristianDemocrats. _______________________________________________ usgp-int mailing list usgp-int at gp-us.org http://forum.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/usgp-int From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Nov 18 10:07:08 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:07:08 -0500 Subject: {news} Please Donate! GP RELEASE Greens focus on electing Malik Rahim, La. candidate for US House on Dec. 6- Message-ID: <04e301c9498f$540d7990$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Dear CT Greens, Malik is an excellent GP Congressional candidate in Louisiana's District 2. He needs our support. Please donate to his campaign before the deferred election on December 2. In fact, there's a little competition going on to see which state party can donate the most before his election. Right now, GPCT is in 3rd place behind NY and CA. Here's the link to donate: visit http://www.votemalik.com/ to donate online, or to find an address to which to send a check. Any amount will help. You know how efficient Greens can be in comparison to the major party spendthrifts. Please give what you can. Peace, Justine McCabe (Co-chair, International Committee, GPUS) ----------------------------------------------. GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Monday, November 17, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Christian Roselund, Media Contact for the Malik Rahim campaign, 504-905-5676, c.roselund at gmail.com http://www.votemalik.com Greens focus on electing Malik Rahim, Louisiana Green Party candidate for the US House on Dec. 6 . Rahim, co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, receives Thomas Merton Award for his relief work in the aftermath of Katrina . Video clip: Rahim's keynote speech at the Green Party's 2008 National Convention, July 12 in Chicago http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7226475852159421918 WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders are focusing on the campaign to elect Malik Rahim, Louisiana Green candidate for the US House in New Orleans (District 2) (http://www.votemalik.com), urging local and national support and assistance for Mr. Rahim. The election for the 2nd District US House seat will take place on December 6 instead of November 4 because of election delays caused by Hurricanes Gustave and Ike. District 2 is currently represented by William Jefferson, who is facing trial on 16 counts of corruption. "Malik Rahim is more than just a welcome change from Rep. Jefferson and the corrupt political culture he represents. New Orleans voters have a chance to elect a hero who organized thousands of Common Ground volunteers to provide food, health care, and other basic services to hurricane victims in the wake of Hurricane Katrina," said Jody Grage, treasurer of the Green Party of the United States. "We're encouraging Greens and friends all over the US to donate to his campaign, and those who can get to New Orleans to work on his campaign." Mr. Rahim is co-founder of the Common Ground Collective (http://www.commongroundrelief.org), an organization that provides short-term relief to victims of hurricane disasters in the Gulf Coast region. Mr. Rahim is a former Black Panther and ran for New Orleans City Council in 2002 as a Green Party candidate. On November 12, Malik Rahim received the Thomas Merton Award (http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org) for his work in community organizing and providing relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Under Mr. Rahim's leadership, the Common Ground Collective opened the first free health clinic in the city of New Orleans, helped reopen schools, gutted over 3,000 homes that needed repair in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, and provided direct services to nearly 200,000 returning residents. Malik Rahim's political agenda include support for a national health care program (with an endorsement of HR676, 'The United States National Health Insurance Act'), federal money to rebuild the Gulf Coast region's healthcare infrastructure, federally funded Category 5 flood protection, and comprehensive storm protection by maintaining and preserving ecosystem services, including rebuilding the region's cypress swamps. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 . Running tally of Green election victories http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.html . Green candidate news http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php . Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml . Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml . Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers . Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://votetruth08.com http://www.rosaclemente.com ~ END ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Nov 18 10:18:36 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:18:36 -0500 Subject: {news} Please Donate! GP RELEASE Greens focus on electing MalikRahim, La. candidate for US House on Dec. 6- Message-ID: <051701c94990$eda5e3c0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Whoops! Sorry for typo. Election is DECEMBER 6 (not 12/2) Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Justine McCabe To: CTGP Women's Caucus ; CTGP-NEWS Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:07 AM Subject: {news} Please Donate! GP RELEASE Greens focus on electing MalikRahim, La. candidate for US House on Dec. 6- Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear CT Greens, Malik is an excellent GP Congressional candidate in Louisiana's District 2. He needs our support. Please donate to his campaign before the deferred election on December 2. In fact, there's a little competition going on to see which state party can donate the most before his election. Right now, GPCT is in 3rd place behind NY and CA. Here's the link to donate: visit http://www.votemalik.com/ to donate online, or to find an address to which to send a check. Any amount will help. You know how efficient Greens can be in comparison to the major party spendthrifts. Please give what you can. Peace, Justine McCabe (Co-chair, International Committee, GPUS) ----------------------------------------------. GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Monday, November 17, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Christian Roselund, Media Contact for the Malik Rahim campaign, 504-905-5676, c.roselund at gmail.com http://www.votemalik.com Greens focus on electing Malik Rahim, Louisiana Green Party candidate for the US House on Dec. 6 . Rahim, co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, receives Thomas Merton Award for his relief work in the aftermath of Katrina . Video clip: Rahim's keynote speech at the Green Party's 2008 National Convention, July 12 in Chicago http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7226475852159421918 WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders are focusing on the campaign to elect Malik Rahim, Louisiana Green candidate for the US House in New Orleans (District 2) (http://www.votemalik.com), urging local and national support and assistance for Mr. Rahim. The election for the 2nd District US House seat will take place on December 6 instead of November 4 because of election delays caused by Hurricanes Gustave and Ike. District 2 is currently represented by William Jefferson, who is facing trial on 16 counts of corruption. "Malik Rahim is more than just a welcome change from Rep. Jefferson and the corrupt political culture he represents. New Orleans voters have a chance to elect a hero who organized thousands of Common Ground volunteers to provide food, health care, and other basic services to hurricane victims in the wake of Hurricane Katrina," said Jody Grage, treasurer of the Green Party of the United States. "We're encouraging Greens and friends all over the US to donate to his campaign, and those who can get to New Orleans to work on his campaign." Mr. Rahim is co-founder of the Common Ground Collective (http://www.commongroundrelief.org), an organization that provides short-term relief to victims of hurricane disasters in the Gulf Coast region. Mr. Rahim is a former Black Panther and ran for New Orleans City Council in 2002 as a Green Party candidate. On November 12, Malik Rahim received the Thomas Merton Award (http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org) for his work in community organizing and providing relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Under Mr. Rahim's leadership, the Common Ground Collective opened the first free health clinic in the city of New Orleans, helped reopen schools, gutted over 3,000 homes that needed repair in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, and provided direct services to nearly 200,000 returning residents. Malik Rahim's political agenda include support for a national health care program (with an endorsement of HR676, 'The United States National Health Insurance Act'), federal money to rebuild the Gulf Coast region's healthcare infrastructure, federally funded Category 5 flood protection, and comprehensive storm protection by maintaining and preserving ecosystem services, including rebuilding the region's cypress swamps. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 . Running tally of Green election victories http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.html . Green candidate news http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php . Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml . Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml . Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers . Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://votetruth08.com http://www.rosaclemente.com ~ END ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. 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Per consensus at the 11-11-08 SCC, we will not have a meeting on Tuesday, 11-25-08; b) chapter are requested to provide feedback about the following proposals on 12-30-08 SCC meeting. Message-ID: <20081119032314.WNCM19960.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> A. The following proposal by Fairfield Chapters was approved, without changes, by consensus at the 9-30-08 SCC meeting, to be sent to Chapters for feedback to the next SCC: PROPOSAL from Fairfield County chapter. CONTACT: David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd, Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193, dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com SUBJECT: Definition of party membership. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: At its February 2008 meeting, the Fairfield chapter adopted a somewhat stricter definition of membership than that in the state bylaws. New Haven has also adopted a stricter definition. The purpose of this proposal is to make party membership contingent on a simple written declaration, just like membership in the major parties, instead of the current definition, which includes vague criteria such as what constitutes a volunteer activity or what is a "coalition partner." This proposal also addresses the contingency of losing minor party status, which happened in some towns during 2004-2006. Further comments can be read at HYPERLINK "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839"http://grou ps.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839 PROPOSAL: In the CT Green Party bylaws (HYPERLINK "http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml"http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml ), the section under "Individual Membership" shall be revised to read: If the Green Party has minor party status in a town, then: A person enrolled on their town voter list as a Green Party member is a member of the Green Party for all purposes. If the Green Party does not have minor party status in a town, then a person may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person must be an unaffiliated voter and must not have been registered with any other party affiliation during the past ninety (90) days. 2. The person shall fill out and sign a CT Voter Registration Form declaring enrollment in the Green Party and submit this to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. Upon submission of such declaration, the person's membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. A person not yet old enough to vote under state law may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person will turn 18 and be eligible to vote before the next General Election Day. 2. The person has applied to vote by filling out and signing a Voter Registration Form with declaration of enrollment in the Green Party and submitted this to their town hall or to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. If the form is submitted to a local or state Green Party officer, membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. Party members shall receive announcements of State Party general meetings, and shall be entitled to vote when attending State Party general meetings. When an active Member of a Chapter, the member shall be entitled to vote at all general meetings of the Chapter. No member, however, shall be entitled to vote in more than one Chapter. Chapters may institute their own requirements for membership different from those for State Party membership. B. Initial Consensus at the 11-11-08 SCC meeting, the underlined, larger font sentences would be changed to: Chapters may institute additional criteria for chapter CTGP members to vote in the chapter. C. Then the following was proposed by New Haven Chapter members: Jerry Martin and Patricia Kane, regarding the above underlined sentences: Totally delete the underlined sentences. They did not suggest any substitution. Note: * this does not provide a minimal CTGP criteria for any person to vote in CTGP chapters. ** current CT voter regulation is that when a voter registers for a specific political party, they are not considered to be a member of that political party for 90 days. Thereby, one can not change party affiliation and vote in a primary election within that 90 day time period. *** having no minimal CTGP criteria for someone to vote in a CTGP chapter, would not preclude a chapter from having criteria to allow voters from other political parties to participate in CTGP chapter voting. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.7/1798 - Release Date: 11/18/2008 8:59 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Nov 19 00:36:47 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:36:47 -0500 Subject: {news} FYI: a) next SCC meeting is Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Per consensus at the 11-11-08 SCC, we will not have a meeting on Tuesday, 11-25-08; b) chapter are requested to provide feedback about the following proposals on 12-30-08 SCC meeting. Message-ID: Just to clarify: The current proposal being circulated is as below. It defines membership in the state Green Party but does not say anything about chapter membership. Please refer to Barbara's annotated version for further explanation. David Bedell PROPOSAL: In the CT Green Party bylaws (http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml"http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml ), the section under "Individual Membership" shall be revised to read: If the Green Party has minor party status in a town, then: A person enrolled on their town voter list as a Green Party member is a member of the Green Party for all purposes. If the Green Party does not have minor party status in a town, then a person may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person must be an unaffiliated voter and must not have been registered with any other party affiliation during the past ninety (90) days. 2. The person shall fill out and sign a CT Voter Registration Form declaring enrollment in the Green Party and submit this to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. Upon submission of such declaration, the person's membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. A person not yet old enough to vote under state law may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions: 1. The person will turn 18 and be eligible to vote before the next General Election Day. 2. The person has applied to vote by filling out and signing a Voter Registration Form with declaration of enrollment in the Green Party and submitted this to their town hall or to an officer of the local or state Green Party. 3. If the form is submitted to a local or state Green Party officer, membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days. Party members shall receive announcements of State Party general meetings, and shall be entitled to vote when attending State Party general meetings. From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Nov 19 01:29:20 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:29:20 -0500 Subject: {news} New London Day: State Greens challenge presidential vote tallies Message-ID: http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=1881573a-02ff-4e91-a96a-dbb1a5f0b72a State Greens challenge presidential vote tallies By Ted Mann Published on 11/13/2008 in Home ?Region ?Region News Officials from the Connecticut Green Party will file a complaint alleging write-in votes for the party's presidential nominee, Cynthia McKinney, were not counted by election officials, a spokesman said this week. In a statement, the party officials charged that the party's vote totals in Congressional races ran far higher than the totals recorded for McKinney in the presidential race, and also said individual voters were told at polling places on Election Day that their write-in votes wouldn't count. The party decided to file the complaint after election officials in several towns refused to disclose their lists of write-in votes. "We gave the election officials one week to show us the numbers BUT my town of Manchester shows I did not write in McKinney for President, and State Co- Chair Mike De Rosa did not write in McKinney in Wethersfield accounting to the Secretary of the State's web site," said Tim McKee, a Green Party spokesman. The party "had about 25,000 votes for our 5 (Connecticut) Congressional candidates, but only 58 write in for President?" McKee said. "In 2004, we had 9,524 for David Cobb for President, so the numbers do not add up to us." From timmckee at mail.com Wed Nov 19 11:18:43 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:18:43 -0500 Subject: {news} Audit of elections- Is your precint one of them? Message-ID: <20081119161844.A8F861158CC@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> http://www.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?a=3189&q=410288&SOTSNav_GID=1843 ****************************************** Tim McKee, Manchester CT, main number cell-860-778-1304, 860-643-2282 National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG-http://thebiggreenpicture.blogspot.com -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee at mail.com Thu Nov 20 17:53:15 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:53:15 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens to Obama: appoint a Cabinet for real change, not big-business warhawks like Emanuel Message-ID: <20081120225316.1FA491059C@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens to Obama: appoint a Cabinet for real change, not big-business warhawks like Emanuel Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:19:23 +0000 GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 20, 2008 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org Greens urge Obama to appoint Cabinet members dedicated to real change, not more corporate operatives and warhawks like Rahm Emanuel ? A Cabinet full of corporate honchos, lawyers, and shills will not "look like America," say Greens WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders called on President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a Cabinet that will pursue real reform, in accord with Mr. Obama's promise of change in the new administration. "Democratic and Republican presidents alike have a record of naming industry chiefs, corporate board members and lawyers, and others loyal to wealthy, elite interests," said Holly Hart, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. "If President Obama truly believes in 'change we can believe in,' he'll appoint a Cabinet that looks like America -- not just in ethnic and gender diversity, but in its dedication to the needs of working Americans and the goal of international peace and justice." Greens called Mr. Obama's choice of Rahm Emanuel for White House Chief of Staff especially unfortunate, citing Mr. Emanuel's position as managing director of investment banks Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, earning him $18 million between 1999 and 2002 and his track record in Congress since 2003. The appointment of Mr. Emanuel confirms Mr. Obama's pledge to AIPAC that he will maintain the same uncritical support for Israel as the Clinton and Bush administrations, whose policies resulted in increasing human rights violations against Palestinians and greater instability in the region. Mr. Emanuel was also one of the original drafters of NAFTA and now favors similar antidemocratic 'free trade' pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, which would cost more US jobs and suppress environmental and labor protections. Green Party leaders said that Rahm Emanuel's appointment was consistent with Mr. Obama's choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his Vice President. Despite his reputation in the media as a defender of working people, Mr. Biden helped draft a law signed by President Bush that relaxed regulations on financial institutions, giving them more power over Americans facing financial problems and transferring risk from predatory lenders to borrowers. As an architect of mandatory minimum drug laws (including the RAVE Act), Sen. Biden helped put the children of working families behind bars. Among the corporate-connected names on the list for the Obama Cabinet are Eric Holder, Jr. for Attorney General and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Holder is a partner at Covington & Burling, which represents the National Football League, Chiquita, and Merck, and Gov. Vilsack is an enthusiastic advocate of genetically engineered crops and corn- and soy-based biofuels, with ties to Monsanto, whose products and policies have destroyed independent and family farms around the world. "Barack Obama's mantra of 'change' is already a lie. With Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, and with Hillary Clinton rumored to be Secretary of State, the Obama White House is ready to pursue much of the same agenda as previous administrations," said Cliff Thornton, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "It's a twisted irony that some tried to tag Obama as a socialist, a perception that will make it that much easier for his administration to continue the practice of redistributing wealth from middle- and low-income Americans to America's wealthiest. Bill Clinton was denounced as a liberal by the same right-wing pundits whose corporate buddies he was handing America over to. The same sell-out is going to happen all over again." "Voters who elected Barack Obama because of his promise of change and the hope of a progressive administration need to wake up and realize they're in for yet another fight. Only if the voters hold Obama to his promises can we avoid the same pro-corporate and warhawk policies that came out of the disastrous Clinton and Bush White Houses," added Mr. Thornton. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Running tally of Green election victories http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.html ? Green candidate news http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.php ? Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://votetruth08.com http://www.rosaclemente.com ~ END ~ _________________________________________________________________ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_112008 _______________________________________________ Natlcomaffairs mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomaffairs You must know your password to do this. 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URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Thu Nov 20 22:34:40 2008 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:34:40 -0500 Subject: {news} Exact Election results?????? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: My modem has been broken since pre election. just came on. I find no emails with numerical/% GP results of Ct races nor any significant elections in any other GP State races. Usually Chris Rielly does this for Ct and Mike Fienstien for National GP { # of people ran where? any won or did well?}. Also how did Nader compared to Cynthia do and where did they do well in Ct and other states? Do we know how many Greens are registered in Ct what % where? just curious Amy> From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com> To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:54:27 +0000> Subject: {news} Todd Vachon's letter on uncounted write-in votes> > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS> http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/> > to unsubscribe click here> mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org> > I could not have expressed this better.> > > http://vachonforcongress.blogspot.com/2008/11/every-vote-must-count.html> > Every Vote Must Count. > > Letter to the Editor:> > Unbeknown to most voters, last week?s election revealed many flaws with the statewide write-in ballot system. While the immediate response from most voters is that ?the write in candidate isn?t going to change the outcome of the election,? further consideration would lead one to be more concerned. Whether one chose to vote for a write-in or a major party candidate does not change the principal of ?one person, one vote.? > > My name is Todd Vachon, and I was registered with The Secretary of State?s office as an official ?write-in? candidate for U.S. Congress in District 2 last week. After much hard work by a handful of dedicated volunteers, we were unable to gather the necessary number of ?valid? signatures to appear on the Connecticut ballot. My campaign committee convened after the August 6th petition deadline and voted to continue forward with a write-in campaign. We knew quite well that a write in candidate realistically had no chance of winning, but we proceeded in order to provide our closest supporters with the option of voting for the candidate they really wanted to vote for.> > November 4th came and everyone went to the polls to register their vote for what they thought was best. While the majority of voters selected either the Democratic or Republican Party candidate, many others chose different candidates which they believed better represented them. Whether they voted for the Green, Libertarian, Socialist or Constitution Party or for an unaffiliated independent candidate, they went to the polls and cast their vote assuming that it would be counted. > > What many of these folks discovered in the days following the election was that their vote was in fact not counted. > > My campaign began receiving emails almost immediately from over a dozen folks who said they had written in my name on the ballot, but their town?s vote tally showed ?zero? votes for the write-in candidate. Dealing with such a small number of votes made it quite easy to determine if one?s vote was actually counted. This phenomena effected my own parents, my website designer, many personal friends and several campaign volunteers in Eastern Connecticut. These are people who went out of their way on election day to write in the name of their candidate on the ballot and were not even rewarded with the pleasure of having their vote acknowledged. > > If you too chose to vote for a write in candidate last week, I strongly urge you to check the official vote count for your home town. This information is available at the Secretary of State?s office and can be viewed at her website: http://www.sots.ct.gov . If you feel that you may have been disenfranchised please inform the Elections Division at the Secretary of State?s office (lead@ po.state.ct.us) and also consider contacting your local town clerk as well. Even if you did not write in a candidate, please consider the weight of this voter?s rights issue and contact the Secretary of State on behalf of fellow voting citizens. While it has not been determined whether this error is a result of the voting process or the counting process, it is an error that must be addressed before the next election cycle. Every vote must count. > > Posted by Todd Vachon for Congress, CT District 2 at 10:49 PM > _________________________________________________________________> Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster.> http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org> _______________________________________________> CTGP-news mailing list> CTGP-news at ml.greens.org> http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news> > ATTENTION!> The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members.> > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief.> > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance.> > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Nov 21 08:56:36 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:56:36 -0500 Subject: {news} Re: Exact Election results?????? References: Message-ID: A lot of these results have been posted to ctgp-news; you can read them in the archive at http://ml.greens.org/pipermail/ctgp-news I'm in the process of calculating percentages for CT races and will post them on http://www.ctgreens.org soon. They will also appear on the national GP website at http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/index.php David Bedell ----- Original Message ----- From: Amy Vas Nunes To: David Bedell ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:34 PM Subject: Exact Election results?????? My modem has been broken since pre election. just came on. I find no emails with numerical/% GP results of Ct races nor any significant elections in any other GP State races. Usually Chris Rielly does this for Ct and Mike Fienstien for National GP { # of people ran where? any won or did well?}. Also how did Nader compared to Cynthia do and where did they do well in Ct and other states? Do we know how many Greens are registered in Ct what % where? just curious Amy > From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com > To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:54:27 +0000 > Subject: {news} Todd Vachon's letter on uncounted write-in votes > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > I could not have expressed this better. > > > http://vachonforcongress.blogspot.com/2008/11/every-vote-must-count.html > > Every Vote Must Count. > > Letter to the Editor: > > Unbeknown to most voters, last week?s election revealed many flaws with the statewide write-in ballot system. While the immediate response from most voters is that ?the write in candidate isn?t going to change the outcome of the election,? further consideration would lead one to be more concerned. Whether one chose to vote for a write-in or a major party candidate does not change the principal of ?one person, one vote.? > > My name is Todd Vachon, and I was registered with The Secretary of State?s office as an official ?write-in? candidate for U.S. Congress in District 2 last week. After much hard work by a handful of dedicated volunteers, we were unable to gather the necessary number of ?valid? signatures to appear on the Connecticut ballot. My campaign committee convened after the August 6th petition deadline and voted to continue forward with a write-in campaign. We knew quite well that a write in candidate realistically had no chance of winning, but we proceeded in order to provide our closest supporters with the option of voting for the candidate they really wanted to vote for. > > November 4th came and everyone went to the polls to register their vote for what they thought was best. While the majority of voters selected either the Democratic or Republican Party candidate, many others chose different candidates which they believed better represented them. Whether they voted for the Green, Libertarian, Socialist or Constitution Party or for an unaffiliated independent candidate, they went to the polls and cast their vote assuming that it would be counted. > > What many of these folks discovered in the days following the election was that their vote was in fact not counted. > > My campaign began receiving emails almost immediately from over a dozen folks who said they had written in my name on the ballot, but their town?s vote tally showed ?zero? votes for the write-in candidate. Dealing with such a small number of votes made it quite easy to determine if one?s vote was actually counted. This phenomena effected my own parents, my website designer, many personal friends and several campaign volunteers in Eastern Connecticut. These are people who went out of their way on election day to write in the name of their candidate on the ballot and were not even rewarded with the pleasure of having their vote acknowledged. > > If you too chose to vote for a write in candidate last week, I strongly urge you to check the official vote count for your home town. This information is available at the Secretary of State?s office and can be viewed at her website: http://www.sots.ct.gov . If you feel that you may have been disenfranchised please inform the Elections Division at the Secretary of State?s office (lead@ po.state.ct.us) and also consider contacting your local town clerk as well. Even if you did not write in a candidate, please consider the weight of this voter?s rights issue and contact the Secretary of State on behalf of fellow voting citizens. While it has not been determined whether this error is a result of the voting process or the counting process, it is an error that must be addressed before the next election cycle. Every vote must count. > > Posted by Todd Vachon for Congress, CT District 2 at 10:49 PM > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. > http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. 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Of course there are more variables involved than when we have a statewide race such as President or Governor: in each district you have different incumbents, different challengers, and different numbers of candidates dividing the vote. As discussed earlier, we suffered in the 4th and 5th Districts because they were 4-way races. However, there is some consistency with past elections. New London, Middletown, New Haven, and Chaplin are near the top of the list, voting over 3% Green. Although Canaan and Cornwall didn't make the top ten as they usually do, they still did well among 5th District towns. Based on past voting, I would have expected Mansfield and Windham to do better; this year they fell out of the top ten down to #32 and #45 respectively. Lebanon, Scott Deshefy's hometown, tops the list as the only town where we broke 4%. Hartford, Steve Fournier's hometown, also did much better than usual, ranking #3 overall and #1 among 1st District towns. Canton, Harold Burbank's hometown, ranked #2 among 5th District towns. In these cases, I think we got a boost from the candidate being well known. Bridgeport dropped conspicuously to 2nd from the bottom of the list, which MIGHT be explained by massive numbers of new voters coming out for Obama and voting straight Democratic. But what looks suspicious is Cromwell, at the very bottom of the list, far below all the other 1st District towns. The SOTS reported only 11 votes there for Steve, and what makes it more suspicious, 0 votes on the Working Families line for John Larson. This should be investigated--watch for results of the election audit being completed this week. CT towns ranked by percent of vote cast for Green Congressional candidate Town Green% District Lebanon 4.09% 2 Naugatuck 3.63% 3 Hartford 3.62% 1 New London 3.53% 2 Preston 3.53% 2 Hartland 3.50% 1 Wallingford 3.47% 3 Middlefield 3.46% 3 West Haven 3.31% 3 East Windsor 3.29% 1 Windsor Locks 3.22% 1 Middletown 3.22% 1&3 Winchester 3.21% 1 Bristol 3.17% 1 New Haven 3.16% 3 North Haven 3.10% 3 Franklin 3.04% 2 Chaplin 3.04% 2 Hamden 2.96% 3 Deep River 2.95% 2 Beacon Falls 2.94% 3 New Hartford 2.90% 1 Bethany 2.84% 3 Prospect 2.79% 3 Norwich 2.78% 2 North Branford 2.77% 3 Seymour 2.75% 3 East Haven 2.74% 3 Barkhamsted 2.69% 1 Portland 2.65% 1 Mansfield 2.63% 2 East Haddam 2.61% 2 Guilford 2.57% 3 West Hartford 2.53% 1 East Granby 2.51% 1 Brooklyn 2.49% 2 Woodbridge 2.48% 3 Durham 2.45% 2&3 Montville 2.45% 2 Milford 2.43% 3 Derby 2.43% 3 Rocky Hill 2.42% 1 Columbia 2.40% 2 Windham 2.40% 2 Wethersfield 2.38% 1 Coventry 2.38% 2 Berlin 2.38% 1 East Hampton 2.37% 2 Haddam 2.36% 2 Clinton 2.28% 2 Voluntown 2.26% 2 Manchester 2.26% 1 Granby 2.25% 1 Colchester 2.25% 2 Southington 2.25% 1 Lyme 2.25% 2 Andover 2.20% 2 Canaan 2.20% 5 Ansonia 2.20% 3 Killingworth 2.19% 2 Branford 2.18% 3 Windsor 2.16% 1 Pomfret 2.15% 2 Scotland 2.14% 2 Orange 2.11% 3 Bozrah 2.06% 2 Ashford 2.05% 2 Eastford 2.05% 2 Griswold 2.03% 2 Canterbury 2.03% 2 Chester 2.03% 2 Newington 2.03% 1 North Stonington 2.02% 2 Suffield 2.01% 2 East Hartford 1.99% 1 Sterling 1.97% 2 Canton 1.97% 5 Salem 1.94% 2 Bolton 1.87% 2 Glastonbury 1.87% 1&2 Putnam 1.86% 2 Plainfield 1.84% 2 Hebron 1.84% 2 Westbrook 1.83% 2 Groton 1.79% 2 Willington 1.77% 2 Killingly 1.76% 2 Ledyard 1.74% 2 Colebrook 1.72% 1 Torrington 1.70% 1&5 Stratford 1.68% 3 Thompson 1.66% 2 Cornwall 1.64% 5 Woodstock 1.63% 2 Hampton 1.63% 2 Warren 1.61% 5 Stonington 1.60% 2 Waterbury 1.59% 3&5 Old Lyme 1.59% 2 Sprague 1.59% 2 South Windsor 1.55% 1 Waterford 1.54% 2 Vernon 1.50% 2 Bloomfield 1.50% 1 East Lyme 1.46% 2 Ellington 1.46% 2 Enfield 1.46% 2 Tolland 1.43% 2 Essex 1.39% 2 Marlborough 1.37% 2 Stafford 1.36% 2 North Canaan 1.34% 5 Somers 1.27% 2 Salisbury 1.24% 5 Union 1.19% 2 Roxbury 1.18% 5 Madison 1.17% 2 Lisbon 1.13% 2 Burlington 1.12% 5 Old Saybrook 1.10% 2 Shelton 1.07% 3&4 Washington 1.05% 5 Plymouth 0.98% 5 Farmington 0.97% 5 Woodbury 0.97% 5 Harwinton 0.92% 5 Morris 0.91% 5 Avon 0.91% 5 Simsbury 0.89% 5 New Britain 0.88% 5 Sharon 0.87% 5 Sherman 0.86% 5 Litchfield 0.86% 5 Norfolk 0.84% 5 Plainville 0.83% 5 Meriden 0.80% 5 Bethlehem 0.78% 5 Goshen 0.76% 5 New Milford 0.72% 5 Cheshire 0.72% 5 Newtown 0.71% 5 Bethel 0.68% 5 Thomaston 0.67% 5 Oxford 0.67% 4 Redding 0.64% 4 New Canaan 0.63% 4 New Fairfield 0.62% 5 Middlebury 0.61% 5 Danbury 0.58% 5 Weston 0.58% 4 Ridgefield 0.54% 4 Wolcott 0.54% 5 Bridgewater 0.53% 5 Monroe 0.51% 4 Watertown 0.51% 5 Greenwich 0.50% 4 Westport 0.50% 4 Norwalk 0.48% 4 Stamford 0.45% 4 Trumbull 0.44% 4 Brookfield 0.43% 5 Southbury 0.42% 5 Kent 0.42% 5 Fairfield 0.41% 4 Easton 0.41% 4 Wilton 0.33% 4 Darien 0.26% 4 Bridgeport 0.22% 4 Cromwell 0.16% 1 _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_112008 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Steve Fournier is preparing an official letter of complaint, and we should list as many towns as we know of. David Bedell From timmckee at mail.com Tue Nov 25 18:00:12 2008 From: timmckee at mail.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:00:12 -0500 Subject: {news} State hearings on Citizens election's Program- Dec 5 Message-ID: <20081125230013.EBB6C1BF2A3@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com> State Elections Enforcement Commission Post-Election Hearings: The Citizens? Election Program Wednesday, November 19, 2008 ? 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 5, 2008 ? 9:00 a.m. Call 860-256-2974 to Sign-up The 2008 election cycle has marked a new era for the financing of campaigns in the State of Connecticut. The State Elections Enforcement Commission will hold post-election public hearings on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 and Friday, December 5, 2008 to gather feedback concerning the 2008 elections for the Connecticut General Assembly and the Citizens? Election Program. The inaugural run of the voluntary Citizens? Election Program brought an unprecedented level of participation for the first run of a public campaign financing program. About 75% of General Assembly candidates elected to participate in the Program, which provides full public financing for qualified candidates for statewide offices and the General Assembly. Candidates who elect to join the Program must abide by strict fundraising and spending limits and use "clean money" to fund their campaigns. The Commission invites members of the public, elected officials, candidates, campaign workers and other interested people to offer feedback and submit written testimony. Those wishing to offer their views are encouraged to prepare written testimony for submission to the Commission by e-mail at public.finance at ct.gov or regular mail. Inquiries or submissions should be directed to: Sheri-Lyn Lagueux at 20 Trinity Street, 5th Floor, Hartford, CT 06106. 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